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THE MQRNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1903. WITH THE JUDGES They Will Now Consider De cision on Coal Strike. LAST WORDS FOR THE MINERS Darren- Closes Ills Arjrnment by Ap peal From "Written to Moral Lbw Severely Castigates Nonunion Ilea nnd .cvr Jersey Lam. PHILADEIiPHIA. Feb. It The Anthra cite Coal Strike Commission, alter being In continuous session lor more than three months, closed its open bearings today with an all-day argument by Clarence S. Darrow In behalf ol the miners. The commission will meet In secret In "Wash ington next Thursday and begin consider ation of the award. It Is known that by the end of this month the arbitrators will be ready to make their announce ment. If an increase In wages is deter mined upon, the Increase Is to date from the first of last November, the commis sion having decided upon that date on October 1L During the session today the commission held a short conference with the lawyers on the several sides, and asked them to hold themselves In readi ness. In case they are called upon by the commission. The crowd that heard Mr. Darrow speak today was fully as great as Uiat which listened to Mr. Baer and Mr. Darrow yes terday. He took up the entire time of both sessions, 5 hours. He touched upon almost every phare of the strike, and when he closed he was greeted with long npplaue, which Chairman Gray did not ruppress. President Mitchell was in court all day. but did not have anything to ay lo the commission in parting. Operutors Would lie Masters. Mr. Darrow first discussed the cause of the strike. The responsibility for the coal famine, he said, rested with those who were responsible for the strike. If the men struck without Just reason, then they are responsible: but If the men were right and the operators not broad-minded enough to see the Justice of their claims, then the latter are responsible for the trouble. He believed the strike was due to the "blind, autocratic, stupid spirit of the operators. They believed the Usun was, who should be the masters, the oper ators or the men. I say neither should be tho master of the other." Mr. Darrow proceeded at some length to verify his assertion and quoted from the testimony of the late Arlo Pardee, a coal operator, beiore a Congressional In vestigation 20 years ago, showing the al leged "blind spirit" of the operators a score of years back, when they refused to treat with the organization of the men. The same spirit, he said, existed today. He briefly referred to the spirit ehown by G. B. Markle in evicting 13 persons for alleged criminal acts; and then took up Mr. Baer's sliding scale proposition made yesterday. If Mr. Baer believed he made a nice, fair proposition, he proposed to show him it was not. Baer's Scale One-Sided. With the assistance of the miners ex pert statistician, Mr. Darrow said, the 1 per cent raise on S cents advance suggested by Mr. Baer would give the operators an Increase of Zhi per cent in profits and the miners only 1V4 on the $160 basis. Mr. Darrow's remarks on the propcjUqnJajnlj'lndlcated. . that the mlncrsilatly reject the proposition. Reverting to the cause of the strike, Mr. Darrow quoted from the replies of the operators last Spring-, when they refused to treat with, organizations. He said labor leaders hesitate to call a strike, because they know it means distress and suffering. He wanted the "captains of industry" to know that it was better for the men to treat with them than have the men go to the "petty feudal tyrants" who are under them In authority, for the purpose of getting Just treatment. It would be bet ter for the industry and the country to have the heads of the coal companies and the representatives of the men meet face to face, rather than have the individual workers go to the under boss. If the boss does not like what the miner says, be throws the latter out. Counsel followed this by reading the communications from Mr. Mitchell before the strike, asking for arbitration. Aibl tration, Mr. Darrow said, is the only means by which Industrial peace can be maintained. Every appeal and every prayer of the men, he said, was con temptuously rejected by the operators. "No numan being could have done mora than the organization of the miners," he said, "to prevent the civil strife that was thrust upon the people of the country. 'They spurned all our requests with con tempt. "We will not treat with you, but will post notices on our works, which shall be your contract for the coming year,' they said. .They forced the strike that they might demonstrate to the men and to the generations to come that the owners of capital are the masters of the workmen. They tried to crush the union. which was the first ray of hope and in- Eplratlon that has entered their' dark lives. But at this late day, after months of strife on the. part of the men to meet their roasters, the operators come In with a proposition." Mr. Baer. Air. Darrow continued, feared his own combination .more than he feared the miners' union, because Mr. Baer's combination Was rich and the miners were poor. The people do not believe in such on absolute ownership of the riches of the earth as that -which the anthracite coal combination possesses. The time will come when the operators combination will be destroyed, not by the miners' union, but by the people, who will take possession of the riches under the ground and relieve themselves of the tyranny of these men." So long as the laws of the country do not nrevent Industrial wars, he said, and so long as the masters of capltaf want to fight, so long will the worklngmen of the country fight. He reverted to the violent phase of the strike, and said, if the commission did not discuss the question broadly, then it was not fitted to grapple with It at all. He referred to the presence of attorneys for the nonunion men and said they came In under the guise of being friends of the nonunion men and asked the commission to give the nonunlonlsts a 20 per cent In crease. "The operators thought It would make their case stronger to do this and In the three weeks lawyers for the nonunion men examined witnesses they never mentioned tho wage Question." Mr. Darrow then launched Into a defense of the men who committed crime under passion and paid the conduct of the men was due to their condition and environ ments. If he was brought up under the cnvlronemcnt of the Pole who struck James Winston on the head with a club. be probably wouiu ao . me same. our. Darrow said the fact that the operators called the men "criminals, cut-throats and assassins" was enough to exasperate them and Chairman Gray Interrupted to say "The commission does not believe the miners arc -criminals, cut-throats and as sassins. At the afternoon session Mr. Darrow again took up the question of violence, "You can never see a great strike exist here and there unless violence Is done, he said, "and so it was in the coal fields. where 150,000 people are living very close together." He said It was a wonder, after the oper ators had Insolently and cruelly rejected 1 the requests of the men. that there was no more violence among the population, reduced to a condition bordering on starvation. Ho paid a tribute to the for eigners In the coal region, who, he said, were warm-hearted, emotional, sympa thetic, religious people. It comes with poor grace, he said, for the operators to say that the Poles and Slavs, whose la bor the presidents have taken for years, could not speak English., and therefore are not a responsible party with whom they could make a contract. He spoke of the strict adherence of the operators to the dead letter of the law, and not to the moral law of humanity, and remarked that "If our captains of Industry would respect their fellowman, the bitter war Just ended would not have occurred, and those who lost their lives in that struggle would be alive today." Conflicts between capital and labor will continue, he said, until tbetc captains of Industry respect their fellow men. It Is idle, futile and use less to talk of curing It in any other way, he said. Mr. Darrow then took up the 13 evictions on the Markle property, and with lan-. guage that was extremely strong he pic tured the eviction of a sick wife and a blind woman 100 years old. "You may roll together all tho cruelty and violence committed In the anthracite region." he exclaimed, "and you cannot equal the fiendish cruelty of John Markle when he turned these helpless people Into the street, simply to satisfy his hellish hate." Brigadier-General Gobin. who command ed one brigade of the state troops In the field during the strike, came in for se vere criticism from the miners' counsel. He read various reports made to General Gobln by his regimental commanders, and severely condemned the General's now famous "sboot-to-klll order." Turning to the boycott, Mr. Darrow said there was one Illustration, at least. In the United States of the boycott, and that was in the American Revolution. "There was not one specific act that is not charged by the loyalists against those whom we tach our children to love and venerate. You and I may sit here and Judge men by the dead letter of the law. We may say that this act Is right and that act 13 wrong. But up there sits the living God and he judgos the acts of men by another standard than ours. Let me say there Is the legal side and the moral side. The boycott is an ancient weapon: It Is re spectable when the operators use it. but not respectable when we use it." He told of the distinction between tho boycott that Is criminal and the boycott that is within the law. As to Nonunion Men. He then spoke of the nonunion men, whom he termed "scabs." These men. he said, have always been hated. Sometimes they are good men. often they act from necessity, but they are traitors to their class. They are men, ho continued, who are used by the capitalists to destroy the rights and aspirations and the hopes of the workmen. "An cl class." he said, "this body of men as they have shown It In this case, have always been ready to take the benefits that flow from organueu iaoor ww ncu. havn been wllllnc to fight to obtain It- They have never been ready to face star vation and hunger. The scab is a man who-has no abiding place on tne lace or tho ofirth Hr Is a wandering tramp. ready to be used by anybody who will pay the price, to use him, and when the strike Is over," the operators let him walk home again or let the union send him home. He is the pliant Jool of the men nhn in this croat struccie. wisely or un wisely, are against the laboring man. And It cannot be but that ne win ob aespiscu, mistrusted, hated and reviled by all men who love liberty and who love their fel Iowmen and who have the point of view of the laboring man." Regarding the demand for an eignt-nour day. Mr. Darrow said: This is not a demand to snirK wurs. as Is often claimed to be the case. It Is a demand for the right of the Individual to have. a -better life, a fuller me, a com pleter' life; and this, like every tning eise, depends on your point of view. There Is onlv one standDolnt from which you have a right to approach this question, and that Is would it make the Dest men, me- Desi American to build a nation, where there will be no more strikes and no more vio lence. Other gentlemen may measure It In dollars and cents. I shall not. He compared the miners' life with tnat of a professional man. who gets a chance to better himself. "There is nothing high and ennobling and great in digging coal.' ho said, "That Is work. He wants a chance to develop tho best that is In him self. It Is no answer to say that. If you give him a shorter day, he will not use It wisely. This Is scarcely worth the re ply." Mr. Darrow said tne commission was charged with one of the greatest re sponsibilities that ever aevoivea on any commission or body of men since history began, and if It is wise and broad. It it nHII hiHM fnr th fntnr and for thflt which is highest for men and grandest and best for the human race. It will be one of the milestone In the progress of the world. 'After making a plea for the weighing of coal wherever It Is possible. Mr, Darrow discussed the merits of the union. On the question or the incorpora tlon of labor unions, he said: Incorporation of Unions. "I am not willing to admit for a single moment that anything can be gained for manhood, for righteousness, for the good of all. by going into some petty Leglsla ture and asking to merge the individual flesh and blood man Into a corporation created by the state. Why, we were told In the argument that the State of New Jersey of all the places on earth, the State of New Jersey bad Introduced a law to compel labor organizations to lncor porate. New Jersey has been busy with the corporation business. New Jersey has Issued Its bogus charters and sent them broadcast over the country. Its charters which have been simply letters of marque and reprisal for every privateer thai sails the high seas of commerce to capture what he can get, until New Jersey has been a stench and a by-word In the .minds of all people who believe In fair dealing and Justice between man and man. Mr. Darrow paid a tribute to the organ. lzatlon which had welded 147,000 men. whe speak 20 different languages, of all de grees of Intelligence, of all degrees of moral character, into one homogenous mass, and he also paid a high tribute to President Mitchell and his officers for the manner in which they handled this great army of worklngmen throughout the struggle. In closing, he said: "This contest Is one of the most Im portant contests that have marked the progress or numan liberty since the worid began one force pointing one way, one force the other. Every advantage that the human race has won has been at fearful cost. Every contest has been won by struggle. Some men must die that others may live. It has come to these -poor miners to bear this cross, not for themselves but that the human race may be lifted up to a higher and broader plane than it has ever known before." After the long applause which was ac corded Mr. Darrow had subsided. Chair man Gray, on behalf of the commission. said: "It Is due to counsel and to those who represented both sides that I should say that we leave you. or rather you leave us. with a feeling on our part of regret that the long association which has been so pleasant to us is about to be broken. It speaks well for counsel on both sides that no unpleasant episode has occurred nothing that should mar the situation In which reasonable men and citizens of a great country find themselves, mutually endeavoring to arrive at Just conclusions ana a just verdict in a great controversy. The work Is now ours, and I know that we have your best wishes that we may have a safe ana righteous ciuveranee. of the Chicago Board of Arbitration, which has been considering the recent grievances of the unions against the Building Man agers Association. This decision, which all parties to the case agreed to abide by. Includes recognition of the Elevator Con ductors and Janitors Unions and concedes the Increased scale demanded by the strikers. ABOLISH CHILD LABOR, Campaign In Xtn York Reveals Ex tent of Evil. NEW YORK. Feb. 13. Prominent men In this city are back of the movement un dertaken by the child labor bureau to make sweeping chances In all the laws that relate to the employment of chil dren. Investigations carried on for the last six months show that parents, avail ing themselves' of the present Inadequate laws, have sent their children Into Uvs of slavery- Boys and girls of tender years have been compelled to work from 12 to 14 hours a day for from TC to 13 a week. In connection with this crusade, the committee is trying to restrict the number of children who engage in the so called street occupations, as selling news papers and blacking boots. They want a law under which children above the age of 12 only shall be licensed to trade in the streets. The investigators found that false swearing was practiced by hundreds of persons. The present law requires that every child less than 11 years of age shall present to the Board of Health an affi davit signed by parents that he is of the proper age. Hundreds of cases ore now on the records of the commission which show that children are often employed In this city at the age of 12 and 13 when there Is no reason for it other than the greed of parents. STRIKE OX SA2VTA FE UNLIKELY. Trainmen and Officials Shorr Spirit of Conciliation. KANSAS CITY. Feb. 13. A conference was held today between the Santa Fe officials and the trainmen relative to an Increase In wages. Nothing definite was decided upon, but there Is a more con ciliator- feeling between tho parties now. A. Garretson. assistant chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, in discussing the probability of a strike, said: That Is a question which I do not know quite how to answer. We have never had occasion to strike and in all probability never will, if things rim as smoothly as they have heretofore. In all previous matters of this kind we have always been able to come to satisfactory agreements. The raise in wages is what we are after. not strikes. Some concessions may be made of course, but one. can not always get all one wants." Xo More Strikes of Elevator Ken. CHICAGO, Feb. It There will be no more strikes of elevator conductors and Janitors of Chicago office buildings for a period of five years ae a result of the work THE TERMS ARE MADE Job Trlnters "Win Their Point. OMAHA Feb. It The Job printers' strike, which has been on here during the past six weeks, was settled tonight, the employers conceding every point. The new scale which goes Into effect September 1 next provides for a uniform wage of $18 per week of 54 hours. His: Factory Shnts Down. DOVER. N. H., Feb. It Orders were is sued today to shut down the print works of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company tomorrow. This will throw out of work about 12j0 men and women. BEATEN BY THE GUARDS Patient In Kansas Insane Asylum Dies of Ilrntnl Usage. TOPEKA, Kan.. Feb. 11 Amos A. Max well, aged GO years, .an Inmate of the Kansas Asylum for the Insane, suddenly died this afternoon as a result of a severe beating alleged to have been given him by Earl New and M. W. "Peterson, two guards. An examination of the man s body. made soon after his death, disclosed noth ing unusual. Then the gardener of the Institution made the statement that he had seen the two guards throw the old man down on the floor and kick him un til he was unconscious. Another examina tion then disclosed the fact that several ribs were broken and that the body was discolored. Governor Bailey and the State Board of pharltles are making an Investigation to night, and tne two guards are being watched by officers to await, further de velopments. Governor Bailey. In discuss ing the death of Maxwell, said tonight that there would be no whitewashing of the affair. "If the attendants are guilty they will have to suffer," he said, TRAIN STRIKES A ROCK. Three Trainmen Scalded to Death In Wreck Xear Wash inset on, Fa. WASHINGTON. Pa., Feb. 13. In a wreck at Vienna Station, on the Balti more & Ohio Railroad, about 14 miles west of this place, today, three men were .killed the train to which they belonged was plied in a confused mass on the tracks, which were torn up several hundred yards and all traffic east and west is blocked on the road. An eastbound freight train struck a large boulder lying In the cut west of Vienna Station. The dead: George Cowan, engineer. H, A. Bell, fireman. James Wright, brakeman. The soli above the tracks had been loosened by recent rains and a quantity of rocks had tumbled to the tracks. The engine was thrown high Into the air and Blighted on its side, pinning the unfortu nate men under it and the escaping steam literally scalded them to death. Ten cars Immediately behind the engine were piled In a neap. roent to The Hague, do not state in de tail the methods of procedure by which the case is to be laid before that tribunal. This will be done in a second set of pro tocols, the preparation of which will begin at once. It is provided, however, that not Venezuela alone but all the other nations shall be permitted to appear with her before the tribunal in opposition to the allies' claim for preferential payment. Upon the signing of the protocols to night congratulations were exchanged by the four negotiators. Mr. Bowen then dis patched a brief cablegram to President Castro, informing him of the signing of the protocols providing for the Imme diate raising of the blockade. The British protocols consist of nine articles and the others arc practically of the same length. All provide for the re newal of existing treaties of amity and commerce with Venezuela. The customs receipts to be set aside for the powers pending the decision of The Hague are to. be deposited in the Bank of England at Caracas. SMALLPOX AT PULLMAN. Quarantine Established and Xo Stu dent Can Lenve. PULLMAN, Wash., Feb. 12. Speclal.)- rne Washington Agricultural College was placed under quarantine today on account of some dozen cases of smallpox that have appeared among the students. The quarantine was declared by the County Commissioners, not because of the seri ousness of the situation, but to prevent the students from going to their homes and thus spreading the disease. The order provides, that no student residing in either dormitory shall be allowed to leave the college campus without a spe cial permit, and that the students living down town win be allowed to come to their classes as usual but must not under any circumstances leave town. Violation of tho order Is punished by a fine of J100 and Imprisonment in Jail for 30 days. Social affairs of every description both in the college and City of Pullman have been declared off, and the college library has been closed. Resumes Under Police Protection CHICAGO, Feb. It The plant of the Western Steel Car & Foundry Company at Ueeewlch, which has been closed for a week on account of the strike of the engi neers and firemen, was reopened today under police protection. About ten engl neera and firemen were secured. It la now feared that the members of the Car makers' Union will strike In support of the ousted engineers and flrenv-n.. Fifteen hundred men are employed at the plant. Will Contlnne Their Cruise. HAMILTON, Bermuda. Feb. It Sixteen of the passengers of the wrecked steamer Madlana will continue their cruise south ward on board the steamer Ocamo, which will sail for the West Indies tomorrow. The Madlana is dally settling down. Illichvray Across Continent. DENVER. Feb. 11 The State Senate today adopted the Tiylor resolution, memorializing Congress to pass the good roads bill appropriating 320,000,000 for the construction of a highway across the con tlnent. (Continued from First Pan.) DEFEXDS THE ALLIANCE. Dalfonr Says United States Should Control South American States. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 11 Premier Balfour. In a speech at the luncheon given by the Conservative Club here today, declared the British government had no choice but to take action 'against Venezuela. The Ministers had Bhown no undue haste,- no greed for money and no Inhumanity. Tho unitca (states, he said, had been taken into the conference at every stage. The Monroe Doctrine had no enemies In this country. It would be a great gain to civilization if the United States would more actively concern itself with arrange ments to prevent the constantly rccurrine difficulties between the European powers ana tne south American governments by getting the latter to observe the principles ot international courtesy. Continuing, he said there was no eround for Lord Rosebery's criticism with respect 10 nruisn relations with either the United States or Germany. Some arrangement with the latter for Joint operation was the most reasonable step possible for en forcing their several claims. Mr. Balfour ridiculed the suggestion that tho alliance with Germany over Venezuela was settled at the time of Emperor William's visit to Sandrlngham. If the peace of Europe was to be pre served and the cause of civilization go for ward without ratal shocks. It must be by the increasing use of co-operation be tween the European powers. The Balkan states were now giving anxiety and the question could only be solved by common action on tne part or the great civilized powers. European concert was clumsy, but it was better than Isolated action. Mr. Balfour Implored all those who had any command over the sources of public opin ion to refrain from creating Jealousies be tween nations, so easily formed and so difficult to allay. Referring to Lord Rosebery's nronosnl that Lord Kitchener be Invited to leave his command in India and become War Minister. Mr. Balfour characterized it as the wildest that has ever emanated from a man who had held and who doubtless was destined to again hold great adminis trative posts. Lord Kitchener was a trreat soldier, but he had not been trained for the work of a Cabinet Minister who was required to defend the proposals of his government In Parliament. Speaking at a reception here this even ing. Mr. Balfour announced that he had received a communication from Foreign Secretary Lansdowne. saying that all the difficulties regarding the Venezuelan ques tion naa Dcen removed, and that no hitch whatever need delay tho final settlement any appreciable time. GER3IAXY FEARED A FIGHT. Official Explanation for Allowing the UnltedStates to Interfere. BERLIN, Feb. 11 A semi-official an swer to the criticisms of the German gov ernment for "allowing the United States to have anything to do with the negoti ations between Germany and Venezuela," was Issued today as follows: ' The United States' participation in the settlement of the controversy Is regarded in many quarters as unfortunate and hin dering the result of the negotiations. Such position can easily be understood, but Justification for this criticism does not ex ist when the consequences of the United States' participation are used as a basis for attacking the government. Certainly we would have reached the object desired more readily and better if we had been let alone, with Venezuela, but every politician knew absolutely In advance that we would not have been let alone. Means for eliminating the United States from the controversy there were not, and there are not now. A statesman who hod acted on this assumption would have lost the game from the start. "Even if President Roosevelt nnd his ad visers wanted to remain neutral, as they tried to do. American public opinion would have compelled them to aid Venezuela in resisting claims of the European powers. It is not a question of the Imaginary de fects and weaknesses ot Germany's state ment, but of fixed. Immutable facts. Ig noring which would have created a German-American complication in place of the German-Venezuelan incident. Many tendencies at home and abroad were work ing precisely in this direction, but qulto without success. The patriotic publicists who call for treating this question according to the Blsmarcklan method can rest assured that this method is being applied. Carefully nursing the friendship of the United States Is a Blsmarcklan tradition, as documents testify. In bis relations with the United Other Worlds. mm In recent years the interest excited anions all thinTdng people as to whether the stars "and planets are inhabited or not, has made the snbiect one of enormous importance. Our sole knowledge of the people on other worlds and how far the reotle there differ from our inhabitants, can only be guessed bv comparison with animal nature on this small suhere of ours. More important to us is a knowledge of ourselves. "Know THYSELF " was an old Greek thought. How to take care of one's own body is not so simple as some think; the human mechanism is a wonderful thing and requires watching. HINTS FOR RIGHT LIVING. One man who has done more to teach the Ameri can people how to care for their bodies than almost any other, is Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., the Author of the "Common Sense Medical Ad viser." He says: It is not the quantity of the food eaten which produces strength and health (for some people can keep strong on a very meagre diet), but it is how much food is absorbed and assimilated by the blood and carried to nourish every organ of the body. It is, therefore, vitally necessary for the body that the stomach be in a healthy state. If disease of the stomach, or what is called "stomach trouble," prevents proper nutrition then the heart, liver, lungs, and kidneys do not get proper, food they are not fed on rich red blood, and in consequence, begin to show signs of distress. Outwardly these signs may be pimples and erup tions on skin, pale face, sleepless nights, tired, languid feelings, or, by reason of the "nerves not being fed on pure blood, they become starved, and we receive a warning in the pain we call neuralgia. Rheumatism, too, is a blood disease. After years of practice and study Dr. Pierce found that one of his prescriptions, made from the extracts of several plants, invariably produced a tonic effect upon the system. It helped the process of absorption of the healthy elements in the food and increased the red corpuscles of the blood, as well as eliminated the poisons from the system. This Alterative Extract he named "Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery," a medicine made entirely of botanical extracts and which does not contain alcohol. Some blood medicines do, and when alcohol touches the little red blood corpuscles they begin to shrink and are reduced to broken fragments and shapeless masses. A $3,OQO FORFEIT. $3,000 forfeit will be cheerfully paid, in lawful money of of the United States, by the proprietors of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, if they cannot show the original statements and signatures of. every testimonial among the thousands which they are constantly publishing attesting the superior curative properties of their several medicines, and thus proving the genuineness and reliability of all the multitude of testimonials volunteered by grateful people. "Nine or ten years ago my health became verv poor, and in 1S92 was so far gone that good doctors pronounced my case the worst they had ever treated," writes Mr. Harvey Phipps, of Florence, Ala. "I had acute stomach trouble, liver complaint caJJ b. and was so nervous I could not sleep. Got so bad I rolled in bed with but a few minutes' sleep each night for three months. I finally took Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery and Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and in a few days no ticed a decided improvement. I commenced to get more rest at night and could eat with pleasure. When I had used three bottles of the 'Discovery I was a new man ; could eat mince failed to produce the desired results, so I got one bottle of the Golden Medical Discovery and it fixed me up in good shape. Food has agTeed with me perfectly since. I am now workvne every day m all kinds of weather, and think if I had not taken your medicines I would now be under the sod." "About two years ago a rash appeared on the arms and legs of my nephew, a boy twelve years of age," writes H. Greenfield. Esq., of 313 East :ot Street, New York, N. Y. "We paid little attention to it at first but it kept on getting worse every day, and we finally went to our family physician who pronounced it a' case of eczema, and said he could cure it in a short while. After treating it about two months it got worse instead of better. I advised the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and after using two bottles the patient began to improve. The itch ing abated; he could sleep better; his appetite increased, and we continued to use the Discovery ' and Pellets until the scales came off by the handful. We used in all twelve bottles and his whole body is to-day as clear and smooth as a baby's. This is the most wonderful and complete cure that ever came under my observation." FREE I Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing ONLY. Send 3i one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or jr stamps for the cloth-bound volume. Address: Dr. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo. N. Y. States he never wore cuirassiers boots, as is now so often demanded, and in the Samoan questions he was perhaps less ex acting than his present successor." Tho government will ask the Reichstag to appropriate a supplementary credit to defray the expenses of the Venezuelan expedition. The amount will be fixed after the raising of the blockade. SUZERAIN OP -SOUTH AMERICA. Position London Journnl Selects for the United States. NEW YORK. Feb. 11 The Dally Tele graph argues this morning that the United States has established a quasi suzerainty over the republics of South America, ac cording to a London dispatch to the Tri bune. The Telegraph says: "The Monroe Doctrine Involves that. As things arc. a distinct premium Is offered . .1 . .1 n.M.nIMn nna who can boast of ephemeral authority In these republics to play fast and loose with their external obligations. Some day or other citizens ot the United States might be the victims, and then the Government at Washington would find .-self confronted by an invidious dilemma. Either It would have to put up with a defiance or be compelled to adopt measures the em ployment of which It denied to other pow ers similarly situated. Such a position would comport neither with the dignity nor the interests of the United States. At any rate, when the Venezuelan difficulty 1? out of the way, we trust that American 'statesmen will take the problem with all Its complicated and embarrassing corol laries In most serious consideration." injure Germany as to Injure Knihind, and that the British Foreign Office has been made the laughing stock of the world. ITALY WASTED MORE CASH." Increased Her Demand "When Can cesxlon Wan SInde to Germany. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 The Italian Ambassador called on Mr. Bowen this afternoon and informed him that he felt that his government should receive an in creased cash payment in view of Ger many's demands for CW.000. Mr. Bowen stated that Italy, If she insists on this payment, will be violating previous agreements. CATSPAW FOR WILLIAM. London Paper's View of British Po sition In Alllnnce. NEW YORK, Feb. 11 The newspapers here, says the. Tribune correspondent in London, are very much dissatisfied be cause Germany Is to receive J34O.00O from Venezuela nnd England only $27,500. Ger many, it is admitted, has every reason to chuckle. The Dally Mall says the net result of the alliance is that the relations of England and the United States have been seriously embarrassed at a time when the mutual sentiment is unusually friend ly, and when American opinion was be ginning to favor the idea of a British al liance: that to the ConUncnt this country has been exhibited as still In German lead ing strings, to the injury of British In terests outside of America; that at great expense President Castro has been shown that It Is 12 times as serious a matter to Rockefeller Cnnrdeil Like a Czar. I.AKBWOOD, N. J.. Feb. 11-John D. Rockefeller has returned to Lakewood. and Is staying with his son-in-law and daughter. Professor and Mrs. Charles A. Strong, ot their cottage on the Lake drive. Two watchmen guard the Strong cottage fit night. A messenger was detained for half.an hour bjfore he succeeded in satis fying the guards that he was not a sus picious person. When Mr. Rockefeller came to visit them two months ago. the Strongs hired a nlghtwatchman, who has been on duty regularly since then. TV'cddlntr, niicaray, Murder. JACKSON. Tenn.. Feb. 11 Albert Bll derback. formerly of Cairo. 111., and Miss Lucy Hudglns. a member of a prominent family, were married yesterday. Late in the day a warrant was sworn out by Miss Hudglns' father, charging BUderback with bigamy. Last night, shortly before mid night, the doorbell of a boarding-house was rung, and when Robert E. McGraw, a boarder, came to the door. he. was shot to death. Two policemen arrested Samuel Hudglns, the father of Bllderback's bride. Invasion of Students I'roni Europe; CHICAGO. Feb. 13. At the banquet of the Chicago alumni of the Michigan Uni versity tonight. President Angell predict ed that within a few years there will be an invasion of American universities by students from Europe. President Angell declared that he questioned the wisdom of the bequest of Cecil Rhodes, which' provides for the attendance of American students at Oxford, and declared that the bequest would have been of greater utll lty had it been reversed to permit of the. attendance of English youth at American institutions. He based his belief on the fact that none of the sciences are taught at Oxford. Suicide nnd Shortnsrc In Succession. NEW YORK. Feb. 11 According to of ficials of the Sargent Manufacturing Com pany, of Muskegon, Mich., a shortage has been discovered in the New York office of the company. The manager here was Henry E, Hugheson, who committed- sui cide several days ago. The amount of the shortage wis not stated, but ex-Sheriff Smith, of Muskegon, who is here on be half of the Sargent Company, said it was not large enough to embarrass tho com pany. Xew Coal Trust Formed. TRENTON. N. J.. 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