Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1896, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1896-TEN PAGES. Dr. B.C. FLOWER Boston, Mass. Dr. B.C. FLOWER to Make a Professional Trip to Washington, D.C., and Through Virginia. ‘The patients of Dr. R. C. Flower will be glad to knew that be bas nged a professional visit through the stat» of Virginia and to Washington, i ptember 14 and 15. Va., Hotel Koanoke, Wednesday, Sep- Wast ‘Tuesday, Roeroke tember 1 Lynel burg, Va. da: Monday and ‘Nervell-Arlingten Hotel, ‘Thurs- 7. 2 ‘ew Atlantic Hotel, Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19. ‘ichmond, Va., The Jefferson, Monday and Tues- Gay, September 21 and 22. Danville, Va., Hotel Burton, Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday, September 23, 24 and 25. Charlottesville, Hotel Albemarle, Saturday, September 26. ‘There is no phy n it: the United States better koown than Dr. R. €. Flower. Hi cures are #0 Bumereus and often of such a miraculous nature that many writers have claimed that many of his cures were miracles. Dr. Flower's ability to tell a patient his disease without asking ¢ question is as well established 2s that Dr. Flower lives. ‘This sorthern visit of the doctor will afford an excellent epportunity te many to consult -this minent specialist close to their homes. It orfoik, Va., MONTANA REPUBLICANS. The Mantle Delegation Seated by the Convention. The republican state convention of Mon- tana met at Helena yesterday at noon and accomplished nothing up to 5 o'clock ex- cept to elect temporary officers and appoint a committee on credentials. The inability of the committee to come to any agreement prevented its reporting, and after meeting and adjourning twice the convention ad- journed to meet at 8 o'clock, at which time the committee announced it would be ready to report. From the start the gold and silver fac- tions locked horns, and up to adjournment at 5 o'clock the silver men had shown a majority. Senator Lee Mantle, chairman of the state central committee, addressed the con- vention for almost an hour. He called at- tention to the political conditions in the state and urged the delegates to carry out the plan recommended in the feport of the Butte conference. That repert recommended both factions to remain together and nominate a state ticket and adopt a platform, excepting the financial clause, when the silver men will witndraw and each faction insert a clause to its liking, besides each nominating their own Congressmen and electors. At the night session the convention, by a vote of 1 to IH, seated the Mantle con- testing delegates from Butte, giving the silver men absolute control of the conven- tion. The appointment of committees fin- ished the night session. Gladness Comes Witha better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant eftorts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt- ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, andis everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have she pennine arti- ele, which is manufactured by the Cali- fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable di st If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. 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HOBART’S LETTER (Continued from Fifth Page.) limited coinage of silver may believe in all honesty that while the present ratio of sil- ver to gold is as thirty to one (not sixteen to one), silver will rise above the existing market value. If it does so rise the effect will be to make the toss to all the people so much less, but such an opinion is but a hazardous conjecture at best, and is not justitied by experience. Within the last twenty years this government has bought about 460,000,000 ounces of silver, from which it has coined approximately 430,000,- 000 silver dollars and issued 130,000,000 of dollars in silver certificates, and the price of the metal has steadily declined from $1.: per ounce to 68 cents per ounce. What will be the decline when the supply is aug- ™mented by the offerings of all the world? ‘The loss upon these silver purchases to the people of this country has now been nearly $150,000,000. A Fraud on Depositors. The dollar of our fathers, about which so much is said, was an honest dollar, sil- ver maintaining a full parity of intrinsic value with gold. The fathers would have spurned and ridiculed a proposition to make a silver dollar worth only fifty-three cents stand of equal value with a gold one worth a hundred cents. The experience of all nations proves that any depreciation, however slight, of another standard from the parity with gold, has driven the more valuable one out of circulation, and such experience in a matter of this kind is worth much more than mere interested speculative opinion. The fact that few gold coins are seen in ordinary circulation for domestic uses is no proof at all that the metal is not performing a most im- portant function in business affairs. The foundation of the house is not always in sight, but the house would not stand an hour if there were no foundation. The great engineery that moves the ocean steamship is not alwsys in view of the passengers, but it is, all the same, the pro- pelling force of the vessel, without which it_would soon become a worthless derelict. It may be instructive to consider a mo- ment how the free and unlimited ccinage of silver would affect a few great inter- ests and I mention only enough to demon- strate what a calamity may lie before us if the platform formulated at Chicago is per- mitted to be varried oui. ‘There are now on deposit in the sa’ banks of thirty-three siat-3 and terri of this Union the vast sum ef $2,000,01 These are the savings of almosc depositors. In many cases they represent the labor and economies of years. Any de- preciation in the value of the dollar would defraud every man, woman and child to whom these savings belong. Every dollar of thelr earnings when deposited was worth one hundred cents in gold of the present standard of weight and fineness. Are they not entitled to receive in full, with interest, all they have so deposited? Any legislation that would reduce it by the value of a single dime would be an in- tolerable wrong to each depositor. Every bank or banker who has accepted the earnings of these millions of dollars to the credit of our citizens must be required to pay them back in money not one whit less valuable than that which these banks and bankers received in trust. There are in this building and loan associations, with share- holders to the number of 1,800,000, and with assets amounting to more than $500,- 000,000. Their averaxe of holdings is Lear- ly $ov per capita, and in many cases they represent the savings of men and women who have denied chemselv>s the comforts of life in the hope of being able to accumu- late enough to buy or build homes of their own. They have aided fa the erection cf over a million houses, which are now af- fording comfort and shelter for 5,000,000 of our thrifty people. Equivalent to Confiscation. Free coinage at the arbitrary rate of sixteen ounces of silver to one of gold would be equivalent to the confiscation of nearly half the savings that these people have invested. It would be tantamount to @ war upon American home makers. It would be an invasion of “the homes of the provident.” and tend directly to “destroy the stimulus to endeavor and the compen- sation of honest toil.” Every one of the shareholders of these associations is enti- tled to be repaid in money of the same value which he deposited by weekly pay- ments or otherwise in these compani¢ No one of them should be made homeless because a politicai party demands a change in the money standard of our country, as an experiment, or as a concession to selfish- hess or greed. The magnitude of the disaster which would pvertake these and cognate inier- ests becomes the more strikingly apparent when considered in the aggregate. Stated broadjy, the savings banks, life insurance and assessment companies and building and loan associations of the country hold in trust $15,309,717,381. The debasement of the currency to a silver basis, as proposed by the Chicago piatform, wouid wipe out at one blow, approximately, $7,963,04,536 of this aggregate. According to the report of the Department of Agriculture, the total value of the main cereal crops in this coun- try in 1894 was $095,435,107. Bo that the total sum belonging to the people, and held in trust in these institutions, which would be obliterated by the triumph of free and unlimited silver coinage, would be seven and one-half times the total value of the annual cereal crop of the United States. The total value of the manufactured prod- ucts of the country for the census year of 1890 was $9,372,537,285. The establishment of a silver basis of value, as now proposed, would entail a loss to these three interests alone equal to eighty-five per cent of this enormous output of all the manufacturing industries of the Union, and would affect directly nearly one-third of its whole popu- lation. One hundred and forty million of dollars per annum are due to pensioners of the late war. That sum represents blood spilled and sufferings endured in order to preserve this nation from disintegration. In many cases the sums so paid in pensions are exceeding- ly small: in few, if any, are they excessive. The spirit that would deplete these to the extent of a farthing is the same that would organize sedition, destroy the peace and security of the country, punish, rather than reward, our veteran soldiers, and is un- worthy of the countenance, by thought or vote, of any patriotic citizen of whatever nearly 6,000 What an incon- sistent thing a hu- man being is. Men go with dread through narrow, noisome streets, They walk wid of comers, ant look _ frequentl over their shoul- Dders. And the things of which they are most afraid are poe a hundred times less dangerous than the thing they think of not at all. The assas- sin’s stiletto is less deadly than the little, insignificant, invisible germs, the bacili} of consumption. This is the thing that causes more deaths than all the wars and pestilences. This is the thing that causes one-sixth of all the deaths in world. It finds easy lodgment in a body made weak by wasting sickness or debility from lack proper nourishment. Impure blood is a fertile resting and breeding place for them. The man who allows his health to decline, who allows his blood to remain impure, and who feels that he is ing weaker every day is holding out an invitation to consump- tion and todeath. When signs of weakness and failing first appear, they should be met by taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery. This isa medicine for people who have lingering coughs, whose lungs are weak—either by reason of colds or heredity. It builds up strength immediately. It puri- fies and invigorates the blood, tones up the digestion, etrengtlicas the nerves, makes the sleep sound and refreshing. It assists the body in throwing off all disease germs. Druggists are sometimes unscrupulous enough to try and sell something else in its place. Nothing is “just as good.” Nothing is nearly as ‘No home library is complete without Dr. Pierce’s ‘“‘Common Sense Medical Ad- viser.” This handsomely illustrated, thou- sand-j volume will be sent free; paper- Boul to. altcwhotwiittesst twenty - one one-cent eases to pay the oniy, to the World’s Di: Brcacts cloth biadsag i a desired ich ling is send ten cents additional (thirty-one cents in all). Dz. Prence’s PLEASANT PELLETS vox C Consrt- PATION. -coat ules, ina two-inch vial the ouly sak and beafectable cure for constipation, SOUT stomach, heart-burn, foul breath and of the heart. They do not gripe, nor cruse ine little “Pellet cathartic. cost of mail: co die satires <cling. political faith. No party, until that which met in convention at Chicago, has ever ven- tured to insult the honored survivors of our struggle for the national life by proposing to scale their pensions horizontally, and to pay them hereafter in depreciated dollars worth only 53 cents each. No Necessity for Repudiation. The amounts due, in addition to the in- terests already named, to depositors and trust companies in national, state and private banks, to holders of fire and acci- dent insurance policies, to holders of in- dustrial insurance, where the money de- posited or the premiums have been paid in gold or its equivalent are so enormous, together with the sums due, and to become due, for state, municipal, county or other corporate debts, that if paid in Jepreci- ated silver or its equivalent, it would not only entail upon our fellow sountrymen a loss in money which has not oeen eyuaied in a similar experience sinze the world began, but it would, at the same time, bring a disgrace to our country such es has never befallen any other nation which had the ability to pay its nonest debts. In our condition, and considering our magnificent capacity for raising revenue, such wholesale repudiation is without 1e- cessity or excuse. No political expediency or party exigency, however pressing, couid justify so monstrous an act. All these deposits and de»ts must, under the platform of the republican pariy, be met and adjusted in the best currency the world knows, and measured by the same standard in which the devts have been contracted or the deposits or payments have been made. Sull dealing sparingly with figures, of which there is an enormous mass to sus- tain the position of the advocates of the gold standard of value, I cite one more fact, which is officially established, pre- mised by the truism that there is no better test of the growth of a country’s pros- perity than its increase in the per capita holdings of its population. In the decade between 1880 and 1800, during which we had our existing gold standard, and were under the conditions that supervered from the act of 1873, the per capita ownings cf this country increased from § to $1, In those ten years the aggregate increa of the wealth of our country was £24 ,205,- 600,000, being 50 per cent in excess of the increase for any previous ten years since 1850, and at the amazing sate of over two thousand millions of dollars a year. The framers of the Chicago platform, in the face of this fact, and of the enormous increase over Great Britain, during thls same gold standard decade, of vur coun- try’s foreign trade and its’ production of iron,coal and other great symbols of nation- al strength and prorgess, assert that our monetary standard is “not only un-Asneri- can, but anti-American,” xnd that ?t has brought us “into financial servitude to London.” It is impossible to imagin> an assertion more reckless and Ind2fensivie. The proposition for free and unlimited silver coinage, carried to its logical con- clusion, and but one is possible, means, as before intimated, legislative warrant | for the repudiation of all existing indebted- ness, public and private, to the extent of nearly fifty per cent of the face of all such indebtedness. It demaais an unlim- ited volume of fiat currency, irredeemalle, and therefore without any standard value in the markets of the world. Every con- sideration of public interest and public honor demands that this proposition shovld be rejected by the American peopic. A Revolutionary Propaganda. This country cannot afford to give its sancticn to wholesale spoliation. It must held fast to its integrity. It must still en- courage thrift in all proper ways. It must not cnly educate its children to honor and respect the fag, but it should inculcate fi- delity to the obligations of personal and natioral honor as well. Both these great principles should hereafter be taught in the comon schvols of the land, and the lesscn impressed upon those who are the voters of today und those who are to be- come the inheritors of severeign power in this republic, that it is neither wise, patri- otic ncr safe to make political platforms the mediums of assault upon property, the peace of society and upon civilization it- self. Until these lessons have been learned by our children, and by those who have reach- ed the voting age, it can only be surmised what enlightened statesmen and _ political econcmists will record as to the action of @ party convention which offers an induce- ment to national dishonesty by a premium of forty-seven cents for every fifty-three cents’ worth of silver that can be extract- ed from the bowels of the whole earth, with a cordial invitation to all to produce it at our mints and accept for it a full sil- ver legal tender dollar of one hundred cents rated value, to be coined free of charge and unlimiied in quantity for pri- vate acccu: But vastly more than a mere assertjon of a purpose to reconstruct the national currency is suggested by the Chicago plat- form. It assumes, In fact, the form of a revolutionary propaganda. It embodies a menace of national disintegration and de- struction. This spirit manifested itself in a deliberate proposition lo repudiate the Plighted public faith, to impair the sanc- tity of the obligation of private contracts, to cripple the credit of the nation by strip- ping the government of the power to bor- Tow mceney as the urgent exigencies cf the treasury may require, 4, in a word, to overthrow all the foundations of financial and industrial stability. Nor fs this ail. Not content with a prop- osition to thus debauch the currency and to unsettle all conditions of trade and com- merce, the party responsible for this plat- form denies the competency of the govern- ment to protect the lives and property of its citizens against internal disorder and violence. It assails the Judicial muniments reared by the Constitution for the defense of indi- vidual rights and the public welfare, and it even threatens to desiroy the Integrity and independence of the Supre! Court, which has been considered tha last refuge of the citizen against every form of outrage and injustice. Cause of Business Depression. In the face of the serious peril which these propositions embody, it would seem that there could be but one sentiment among right-thinking citizens as to the duty of the hour. All men, of whatever party, who believe in law, and have some regard for the sacredness of individual and institutional righte, must unite in defense of the endangered interests of the nation. While the financial issue which has been thus considered, and which has come, as the result of the agitation of recent years, to oceupy a peculiar conspicuousness, is admittedly of primary importance, there is another question which must command careful and serious attention. Our finan- cial and business condition is at this mo- ment one of almost unprecedented depres- sion. Our great industrial system is se- riousiy paralyzed. Production in many important branches of manufacture has al- together ceased. Capital is without re- munerative employment. Labor 1s idle. the revenues of the government are insuf. ficient to meet its ordinary and necessary expenses. These conditions are not the re- sult of accident. They are the outcome of a mistaken economic policy deliberately enacted and applied. It would not be dif- ficult, and would not involve any violent disturbance of our existing commercial system, to enact necessary tariff modifica- tions along the lines of experience. For the first two fiscal years of the so-called McKinley tariff the receipts from customs Were $380,807,980. At this writing the Wil- son tariff act has been in force for nearly two full fiscal years; but the total receipts, actual and estimated, cannot exceed $312,. 441,947. A steady deficit, constantly deplet- ing the resources of the government and trenching even upon its gold reserve, has brought about public distrust and business disaster. It has, too, necessitated the sale Of $2%2,000,000 of bords, thereby increasing to that extent the national debt. It will be remembered that in no year of the more than a quarter of a century of continuous republican administration succeeding the civil war, when our industries were disin- tegrated, and all the conditions of business were more or less disturbed, was the na- tional debt increased by a single dollar; it was, on the contrary, steadily and rapidly diminished. In such a condition of affairs as this it is idle to argue against the ne- cessity of some sort of a change in our fis- cal laws. The democratic party declares for a remedy by direct taxation upon a selected class of citizens. It opposes any application of the protéctive principle. The Remedy to Be Applied. Our party holds that by a wise adjust- ment of the tariff, conceived in modera- tion and with a view to stability, we may secure all needed revenue, and it declares that in the event of its restoration to pow- er it will seek to accomplish that re- sult. It holds, too, that it is the duty of the government to protect and encour- age in all practicable ways the develop- ment of domesti@ industries, the elevation of home labor ard the enlargement of the prosperity of the people. It does not favor any form of legislation which would lodge in the government the power to do what the people ought to do for them- selves, but it believes that it is both wise and patriotic to discriminate in favor of our own material resources, and the utili- zation, under the best attainable condi- tions, of our ow! (apical and our own available skill and Industry. The words of the republican platform on this shi t are at once tem- perate and emphatic. It says of the policy of protection: “In-its reascnable applica- tion it 1s just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreigAf[control: and domestic mcnopoly, to sect¥##al discrimination and individual favoritism.” ¢ ¢ # * “We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products @s will not only furnish adequate revenue for the’ necessayy ex- penses of the government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage-level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production; the ruling and un- compromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a right settlement, and then it wants a rest.” The republican party, in its first suc- cessful national contest, under Abraham Lircoin, declared in favor “of that policy of national exchanges which secures to the workingman living wages, to agricul- ture remunerative prices, to mechanics and Manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity’ and inde- pendence.” The principle thus enunciated has never been abandoned. In the crisis now upon us, it must be tenaciously ad- hered to. While we must insist that onr monetary standard shall be maintained in harmony with that of the civilized world, that our currency shall be sound and hon- est, we must also remember that unless we make it possible for capital to find em- ployment and for labor to earn ample and remunerative wages it will be impossible to attain that degree of prosperity which, with a sound monetary policy, buttressed by a sound tariff policy, wil! be assured. Flourished Under Protection. In 1892, when, by universal consent, we touched the high water mark of our na- tional prosperity, we were under the same financial system that we have today. Gold was then the soie standard, and silver and paper were freely used as the common currency. We had a tariff framed by re- publican hands, under the direction of the great statesman who now logically leads the contest for a restoration of the policy whose reversal brought paralysis to so many of our industries and distress upon so large a body of our people. We were un- der the policy of reciprocity, formulated by another illustrious statesman of the gen- uine American type. We may, if wi choose to do so, return to the prosperous conditions which existed before the pres- ent administration came into power. My sincere conviction is that my coun- trymen will prove wise enough to under- stand the issues that confront them, and patriotic enough to apply safe and’ sure remedies for the evils that oppress us. They will not, I am sure, accept again at their face value the promises of a party which, under desperate and perverted lead- ership has so recently dishonored its sol- emn pledges, which has repudiated the principles and policies which have given it a historic past, and the success of which, as now constituted, would endanger at home private security and the public safe- ty, and disastrously affect abroad both our credit and good name. And foremost ameng those who will decline to follow where the new democracy leads will be thovsands of men, democrats aforetime and democrais today, who count country more than party, and are unwilling even by in- directicn to contribute the results so dis- astrous to our most sacred interests. Other Questions at Issue. The platform of the republican natienal convention states the party position con- cerning other quesiions than those herein referred to. These, while at the present time of subordinate importance, should not be overlooked. The republican party has always been the defender of the rights of American citizenship, as against all ag- gressions whatever, whether at home or abroad. It has, to the extent of its power, defended those rights, and hedged them about with law. itegarding ihe ballot as the expression and embodiment of the sov- ereignty of the individual citizen, it has sought to safeguard it against assault, and to preeerve its purity and integrity. In our fereign relations it las labored to secure to every man entitled to the shelter of our flag the fullest exercise of his rights con- sistent with-inie jonal obligation. If it should be ~ restored to “tulership it would intuse needed vigor into our rela- tlons witir powers which have manifested cortempt and disregard not only of Amer- ican citizenship, but of humanity itself. The republican party has always stood for the protection of the American home. It has aimed to secure it in the enjoyment of all the biessings of remunerated indus- try, of moral culture, and of favorable physical environment. It was the party which instituted the policy of free home- sieads, and which holds now that this policy should be re-established, and that the public lands yet vacant and subject to entry in any part of our national terri- tery should be preserved against corpor- ate aggre:sion as homes for the people. It realizes that the safety of the state lies in the multiplication of households, and the strengtheuing of that sentiment of which the virtuous home is the best and the tru- est embcdiment; aad it will aim to dignity and enlarge by all proper legislation this element of security. If elected to the position for which I have been nominated, it will be my earn- est and constant endeavor, under Divine Suldance, in the sphere of duty assigned to me, to serve the people loyally along the line of the principles and policies of the party which has honored me with its preference. I am, gentiemen of the committee, Very truly yours, GARRET A. HOBART, +o COCKRAN DECLINES. Ceuld Net Be a Republican Candi- date for Congrens. Thurlow Weed Barnes, republican leader in the twelfth congressional district of New York city, recently wrote Bourke Cockran cffering him the republican nomination for Congress. In the letter Mr. Barnes suggeat- ed that the republicans and gold standard Cemocrats united can elect whomever they indorse. Mr. Cockran declined in the fol- lowing letter “My Dear Str: I am deeply sensible of the compliment which you have paid me in asking me to become a candidate for Con- gress in the twelfth district. I have not the slightest doubt that any person who may be nominated by the republican cun- vention and indorsed by the sound money democrats will be elected by a decisive ma- crity, but I am nevertheless constrained to decline the invitation with which you have honored me. “The assault led by Mr. Bryan on Ameri- can honor and industry is fraught with such danger that I shall vote for Major Mc- Kinley as the most effective method by which I can aid in preventing its success, “I could not, however, accept any nomina- tion during the campaign, or an election, or appointment after the campaign, to any office, however exalted, for which I would be indebted to the political organization whose candidate I am compelled to support by the exigencies of a grave national peril, but to whose distinctive principles I am op. posed. “While the demoeratic organization re- mains a party to the populistic conspiracy against Wages, I shall labor untiringly for its defeat, but 1 will not consent to profit by its overthrow. “The faithless Idaders who have be- trayed the democratic convention to the populists deserve a crushing rebuke at the polls, and I am anxjous to join in adminis- tering it to them, but I am resolved to share the exclusién from office, which I shall urge the people to impose on my party. I shall continue to maintain an un- compromising opposftion to Tillmanism and Bryanism until the,end of the campaign, but I can accept no other reward for such @ course than the feeling that I will be ex- plating in some degree the follies gnd ex- cesses of the party*to whose success I have contributed in the past, but whose strength has become a menace to the peace and pros- perity of the country. “Your obedient servant, “W. BOURKE COCKRAN.” ——__+e+—__ Ferman Takes Black’s Place. General Black, who formally declined the nomination of the gold standard democrats for governor of Illinois, was succeeded by W. 8. Forman of St. Clatr county. The vacancy caused by the shifting of Mr. For- man from the foot to the head of the tick- et was filled by the nomination of D. V. Samuels of Chicago for the office of at- torrey general. Mr. Forman is a native of Kentucky, is a lawyer of East St. Louis, and has represented the eighteenth Illinois district two terms in Congress. Daniel V. Samuels is a Chicago lawyer. He has been prominent in democratic politics for many years, tational $3 A MONTH Dr. McCoy Waives All Per- sonal Fees DURING MONTH OF SEPTEMBER For This Month, bat Only for This Month, He Will Allow All to Place Themselves Under Treatment at the Nominal Rate of $3 a Month’ Until Cured — This Offer Made So That Those Who Have Felt That They Could Not Be Treated, Knowing Doctor McCoy's Fees, May Not Be Deprived of the Benefits of the Won- derfal Trentment That in Attract- fon of the Whole N; MANY WHO HAVE VISITED THE OFFICES OF DOCTORS McCOY AND COWDEN DURING THE PAST FEW MONTHS HAVE FELT THEY COULD NOT AFFORD THE MONEY NECESSARY For THE TREATMENT. MANY ALSO HAVE BE KEET AWAY BECAUSE OF THE INERAL KNOWLEDGE THAT DOCTOR McCOY'S FEE ARE HIGH—NECESSARILY MADE SO BY THE GREAT DEMANDS UPON HIS TIME AND SKILL WHEN DOCTOR McCOY ESTABLISHED A TIONAL PRACTIC IN WASHINGTON IT WAS HIS PLAN TO GIVE EVERYBODY AN OPPpoR- TUNITY TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF HIS TREATMENT WHICH HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR THE. THOUSANDS AND°TENXS OF THOUSANDS OF THE SICK AND THE DEAF IN OTHER CITIES. IT IS STILL DOCTOR McCoy's PUR- POSE TO DO THIS, AND WHILE HE DOES NOT PROPOSE TO REDUCE HIS FEE—WILL NOT DO. Iv IN FACT—-HE WILL FOR THE TIME BEL ABOLISH IT ALTOGETHER, AND GIVE FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER HIS SERVIC FREE CHARGING ONLY FOR THE MEDICINES, MAKING A UNIFORM RATE OF $3 A MONTH. THIS RATE WILL ONLY BE GIVEN DURING SEPTEMBER, AND WILL APPLY TO OLD AND NEW PATIENTS ALIKE, AND WILL BE MAIN. ‘AINED UNTIL A CURE IS EFFECTED IS, ALL NEW PATIENTS WHO APPLY BEFORE OCTOBER 1, AND ALL OLD PATIENTS WHO RENEW BEFORE OCTOBER 1, WILL BE TREATED UN- TIL CURED AT THE UNIFORM RATE OF #3 A MONTH. THIS APPLIES TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAF AND THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ALL DISEASES WITHOUT EXCEPTION. IT APPLIES ONLY TO THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, AND THOSE APPLYING AFTER OCTOBER 1 WILL BE CHARGED THE REGULAR FEE. testifies to Dr. MeCoy’s skill in curing | | Maurice Clagett, 215 A st. se, | | at deafness. 1] i Maurice Clagett, 215 A street s.c.: “I had been deaf for a quarter of a centary, and had sought the aid of the most learned ductors of whom I knew. They told me that I could never recover my hearing. I Could Hear Ne Sounds distinctly. Wagons and street cars would pass me and I would uot be aware of it unless I saw them, I could not hear ordinary conversation at all. I never attended public meetings or entertainments because I could not hear anything. When I learned that Doctor McCoy had estab- Ushed a Nationul Practice in Washington I went to him. My improvement has been wonderful. I Cam Now Hear with my left ear ordinary conversation, and my right ear, which was almget stone deaf, 1s much Vetter. I buve tested my bearing by closing my jeft ear. I can then hear an auction bell a block away. I can bear the clatter of horses’ hoofs—a sound that I did not hear for years with either ear. My friends all notice the wonderful change that has been brought about by Doctors McCoy end Cowden."” McCoySystemofMedicine 715 13th Street Northwest. Dr, J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a.m, 1 to 5 p.m., @ to & p.m., daily; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 pm. LOST TO THE SPANISH. The Independence of Cuba ts Prac- teally Assured. The London Times today publishes a long letter from its Havana correspondent deal- ing with the state of affairs in Cuba, in the course of which he says: “Careful study for the past four months convinces me that, despite serious losses, the rebels are holding theiz own against the troops. The wealthy agricultural districts are com- pletely under rebel control, and the whole sympathy of the islanders is with the reb- els. “Even Havana, which Is more Spanish than any other town or district, is per- meated with animesity toward Spanish rule, and is honeycombed with intriguers on behalf of the rebellion. It is quite false to call it a color struggle. In the fighting ranks of the insurgents the proportion is 70 per cent of whites to 30 per cent negroes. “It is mow too late to compromise by granting reforms. The Cuban insurgents ‘would not now accept full autonomy as the price of yielding their arms. I say this ad- Visedly, after a careful examination of the situation from all points of view. Spain will be compelied to conquer or to abandon the Island. ‘This frreconcilable attitude of the rebels ts largely due to the wholesale €xecution of rebels after summary trial. These drastic measures only increase the haired of Spain, without deterring recruits trom joining the rebellion. “Another reason is the hopeless pr t of any rehabilitation of Cuban credit amine the island is under Spanish dominion. ‘Tax- ation must be heavily increased to pay the burdens of the war. Hence, the people with vested interests prefer the visk and uncertainties of independence, coupled with the earnest hope that at no distant date Cuba wil become a state in the American Jrava.”” ++ AUCTION SALES OF REAL ESTATE, &c Today. Building lot tn alley om P st. between 36th and Bith sts., Georgetown, D. ©. Sale Thursday, Sep- tember 10, at 5 o'clock p.m, Johm W. Pitling and Irting Williamson, trustees, Thos. Dowling & Co., Aucta, 612 B st. nw.— Congress Heights, D. C., frame dwelling. Sale Thursday, September 10, at €:30 o'clock p.m. The Land Title and Trust Co., trustee. Rateliffe, Sutton & Co., Aucts., $20 Pa. ave. nw. dwelling No. 121, Sale Thursday, , at 4:30 o'clock p.m, AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. THIS AFTERNOON. FUTURE DAYS. RATCLIFFE, SUTPUN & CO., AUCTIONEERS. Guccessors to Ratcliffe, Darr & Co.) VERY _DESIRAY EE-STORY AND BASE- MENT Bi in WITH BROW) STONE 4 9 Pwo BATHS, § U On THURSDAY, the TENTH DAY of SEPTEM- RER, at HALY-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M., Will offer for sale, by public auction, in iront of the premises, . LOT 48, SQUARE 758, nting 18 feet by a depth of 45.96 feet, running along an alley, with private alley in rear. This sale should conmand tho attention of partics seurch of a desirable home or an investment, bel situated in one of the best sections of the’ scuth- est. Terme, very liberal and stated at the thine of wile. $200 required uy acce] au2s-akas TACLIEGE, SU THOMAS DOWLING & CO.,AUCTS., 612 E TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TWO-STORY SIX-ROOM FRAME DWELLING AT CONGRESS HEIGHTS. By virtue of a dved of trust dated October 24, 1895, and duly recorded in Liber 2060, at folio 246 et seq., one of the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the purties se: cured thereby, we will sell, at public auction, on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER TENTH, 1806, "AT HAL T FOUR P.M... the following described property: Lot eighteen (8), in block four (4), in Lar er’s addition to Congress Heights, together with fo.provemen ‘Terms cash. Terms of sale to be complicd with in 15 days, or the property will be resold at. rink and cost of defaulting purchaser. $100 deposit re- quired at time of aale. A conv and re- cording at purchaser's cost. HE LAND. TITLE AND TRUST CO., Trustee. IM, PARKER, Atty. for the party secured. an29-déeds TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE LOT IN ALLEY 3 INTO P STREET RETW 360 AND 37TH STREETS, GEORGETOWN, D. C. Ry virtue of a deed of trust, daly recorded in Liter No, 1482, follo 146 ct 'seq., of the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the ieyucst of the party thereby xccured, we wiil sell att iow, in front of the’ premises, on SEPTEMBER ‘TENTH, 1%06.' at . the following described real in the city of Georgetown, District of C : Lot numbered 143, in Win. H. Manogu: 11h, 119 and 120, in Threlkel wn (being in Square 7S, now as said eubdivision is ded in the office of surveyor of the Dis- in book Gov. Shepherd (Georgetown), guage ‘Terms: One-third cash, of which a deposit of $50 at the time of od the balance in installme from day of sale, for which notes of the purchaser, hearhug interest’ from day of sule Qayable quar- terly), and secared by deed of trust on the property suld, ‘will be taken, or all cash, at the option of the “purchaser. All ‘couvesatciug and recording at purchaser's cost. If terms are not complied with in tea days from sale the trustees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser or purchasers after ht days’ advertivement in The Dvening Star hewepaper. : JOHN W. PILLING, IEVING WILLIAMSON, ‘Trastees. coda TOMORROW. TLOMAS DOWLING & OU., AUCTIONEERS, 612 Est. nw. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF FRAME HOUSE NO. 915 MNETEENTH STREET, BETWEEN 1 AND K RIAWEST. Default lnving occurred under deed of trast, Gated October 20, 1856, avd recorded in Liber 1207, follo 317 et seq., of the District of Columbia land the undersigned will offer for sale, mblie auction, in front of the premises, ou TC DAY, THE. DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1896, AT FIVE O'CLOCK P-M.. the south half of Jot No. 13, in syuare 106, Wasinngton, Ir. €. ‘Terms of sale: One-third «ash, one-third in one Sear and one-third in two years, or alg cash, at the option of the purciaser. Deferred payments to be secured by deed of trust upon prenmines wold and to bear int at six per cent per an- bum, poruble senil % ysit_ of $100 with with. recerds, at ginning at the northwest corner of lot sixty ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED PTEMBER ELEVENTH, 1896, heur and place, by order of the trusiccs. wes-co8ds FUTURE DAYS. M. B. LATIMER & 00., AUCTION 1229-31 G st! nw. CHANCERY, SALE OF DWELLING PROPERTY. NOM. 2 Gb4 NAVY PLACE, wi rH JUTHEAST. By virtue of a a District of Columbia, tember, 1596, in equity caune Wiliup HH. 7Fuss et al. are Blixabeth Bean et al. defendants, appointed by sald decree, will of Sep. wherein inanix, and . in Olive 7h, subject to 4-foot right of said brick bu: | two ¥ ber centum per annum, payahl cured by deed of trust cash, at option ef pure Mill be required at time of r. Conveyancing and ser. THOMAS I. GARDXE ie WaktDROBES, HANDS TURES. ‘OKN S EN REQUISITES, & On XATURDAY, SEPTEMBER TWELFTH, 1896, at TEN AM.. within our sales rooms, 1407 G st., We Wil! sell the above assortment of effects. ALSO, PROMPTLY AT ‘TEN, 500 rards (in rolls) of Brussels and Ingrain Carpets, Jot Bicycles, ‘Terms cash. 816-21 RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & ©O., AUCTIONEERS. Successors to Ratcliffe, Darr & Co.) TO WHOM JT SAY CONCERN, TO PAY sTOR- AGB AND CHAS . On SEPTEMBER SATURDAY | MORNING, TWELFTH, 1496, at TEX O'CLOOK, we will sell, at the auction rooms of Iatcliffe, Sutton & Co. 920 Penna. ave., to the highest bidder, the follow: fog Piano, stored in the name of one Geo. D. koff: “Schiedmayer Grand Plano, 7 1-2 octave, stored March 15, 1890, in the name of Geo. D. Wyekott. All parties interested will please take notice, EB. F. DROOP & SC sed-3t 925 Jenna. ave. C. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 G ST. CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE BUSD PROVERTY NO. 713 EIGHTH STi SOUTHEAST Under end by virtue ef a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, passed the eighth day of May, 1896, in equity cause No. 36880, wherein the Alfred Richards Brick Company is complainant and Frauk J. Nolie etal ferlants, we, the andersigned tru by said decree, e auction, i frent of the i PT WELETH DAY of SEPTEMBER, eat HALF-TasT FOUR O'CLOCK F.M., the following described real estate in the city of Washington, Distrie: of Ce: iumbia, to wit: ‘The north twenty-five fe the depth thereof of origiual lot hambered t two (22), in square numbered nine hundred and fo (04), with the improvements thereon, consisting of a brick dweling used as a restaurant; alo has a brick buliding on rear of Jot, used as & stuble and bering estatlishment. Terms of sale, as required by snid decree: One- t by thind of the purchase money ir cash, und the tal- ance in one and two years, with interest at 1 rate of G per ceniuin per ‘annem, payable semi- annually, secured by deed of trust ‘on the property sold, or all cash at the option of the purchaser. A Geposit of $300 TH be required at the time of sale. Terme of gale to bw complied with in ten @ays from day of sale, otherwise the trustees re- serve the right ‘to resell at Tsk and cost of de- faulting purchaser. All conveyancing and recording 1 COSI chaser, At the cost of the parchane or R ENRY F. WOODARD, Trustee, HENRY Norm uridine, 1ith und F. WILLIAM C. sel-dts ©. G. SLOAN & ©O., AUCTS., 1407 G ST. TRUSTFES’ £AIM OF A VALUABLE LOT AT Ie Gry, D.C. INPROVED BY 4 TwWo- STORY FRAMB HOUSE. Ry viriue of a decd of trust, fecorded in Liber . 1909, follo 393 ct seq., ove of the land records of the District of Cohnmmbia, and at the require- ment of the board of directors of the United Hank- ing and Baildiag Company of Richmond. state of Virginia, the an trustees, will sell, ot nblic auction, in front of the premises, on MON- Bay ge FOURTEENTH Day OF SEPTEMRER, 186, AT HALP-AST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M, that catain piece of land and improvements’ thereon, situate in the county of Washington, aud District of Columbia, and known as lot numbered ten (1%, in block numbered forr (4), of Ivy City, a8 the subdivision thereof 4s recorded in county withdivision Book Levy Court 2, pege 76, in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia. Terms of sale: Thirteen hundred and mlncty dol- and the expense of executing the and the balance in two equal pay ircnts, at one and twe years from day of sale, with interest at six per cent per annum, and secured by the notes of the purchaser, aad a deed of trust on the property sold, or all cash, at the option of the er. A deposit of $10) will be required at the time of All conveyancing and recording at the purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with within fifteen days from day of sale, otherwise the trustees reserve the right to resell the property ‘ot the sisk and cist of the defauttiug purchaser. J. J. LEAKE, H. L. DEXot JAS. E. PADGETT, ee2-dkds ‘Trustees. DUNCANSON EBROS., AUCTIONEERS. TRUSTEES’ SALE. OF THREE BRICK HC ROOMS EACH, NOS. 5uz, 504 MARKS COURT SOUTHEAST, BETWEEN B AQE.G 4ND GLH AND TH STREETS SUUTH- By virtue of a certain deed of trust recorded im Liber No. 1927, at land records of’ the I sell in front of the TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBI 1806, AT HALE-PAST FIV! of lots sixty (60), sixty in square ej prinisonsan 2» CLOCK 3 ) and sixty-two, ht hundred and seventy-seven ¢ Washington, 1. ¢ the city of ax follows wo 24, Somme thence suuth thirty-six and a half (6igy ae thence east sixt six and a hal “four (64) feet mr 464) fect, the Gy) feet, anid them the of beginu Terms of sale: One-third cash, Imilit and two yeats, with interest at 6 per cept per aa- Hum, juyable semi-annually; $150 required at of sale. CHARLES F. RENJAMIN, WM. H. DUNCANSON, BoB d&ds rustees. i SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS. Guccessors to Ratcliffe, Darr & Co.) UNMMPROVED KNOW! oF OF BAILEY a trusters, ‘aim deed of trust bearing date March 10, 1892, and re- conled in Liber 1654, folio 357 et seq., of ‘the land records of the District of Columbia, baving 12th day of June, 18¥6, by virtue of the a Of snid “deed of trust, and after due public adv Usement, as required by said decd of trast, old, by auction, ‘certain real estate hereinafter descrived, and the purchaser at said sale having failed t> comply with the terms of said sale, the uoder- signed trustees will, at the rink and’ cost of the defaulting purchaser, resell the said real estate A public auction ih font of the premises, THURSDAY, SEVENTEENTH DAY SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1806, AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK PML the, ald real eatate belng ia the counts of Wa ington, in the District of Columbia, and described by metes and bounds as follows: All that certain Piece or parcel of land and premises known and Mietinguinibed na abd being part of a tract of land known as “Spring or Bailey’ chose, and more fully described and ‘bounds as follows: —_ Beg! on the west side of the Eas at the southeast corner of the land and thence orth 22 degrees, and 28-100 perches; thence north twelve and 48.100 perches: West twenty-three 0-100 perches; t degrees, east vighteen perches; thenc degrees. east sixteen 6-100 pervbes, to the cx of Smntth’s Branch: thence following ‘the of said branch morth 564 degrees, thence north 69 degrees w thence morth NI degrees, West hence Worth Gy decrees, west fifteen ee north Gly degrees, west twenty- orth perches; thence orth Bote os, Wet nty-two GS-100 perches, to the er line of of the Baltimore and Povonme Rak; the center line of the track of said. railroad south Gl degrees, west sla perches; thence south Sky degrees, West six perches; thence south G2ig degr: west si; Gig. degreen, Gegtecs,, west six perches, } thence following the Tine 33 degrees, west ten perches: 1 Green west ten pert wast ‘eighteen perches West sik_perchen; thence south TO de Six 40-100) perches: thenre mouth 1% 9 seven 20-100 porches; thence south 22\ degrees, West five 54-100 perches, a@ stone and the bound- ary Mite of one Mason's’ Hine: thence with the a boundary line south Gli degrees, cast one huudred and twenty 12-100 » ‘bee, tO mall e Seat aide of the Kester Branch wd ahd’ pl Rertening, “coutaauing fifty-one nnd 2 i . 160) acres, more or less, together with all - provements, rights, &. = ‘Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money $1.) mo be paid to the trus- of ale), and the Dnlanee to ea equal installments, fn one and two grams, with we terest at 6 yp mt per annum, payable runuully, the deferred . pirchuser, . and secunad hy ded of trust property sold, or all cash at the ph lurchaser. All convesaneing at purchasers cnet, terms of sale ‘are mot complied with, arithine tea days from day af sale trustecs reserve the right to resell at purchase w.w. GEORGE i, h thence south es, WeBt ses, WoKt ben f COB. WRIGHT, | WRIGHT, Trustors, st. naw cessors to Ratelifte, Dare & > A_PRAME HO! STREET NEAR STREET, ANACOSTIA, D.C By virtue’ of two decds of trast spectively in Liber No ; Liber No. A817, folie 322 et sey, records for the District of Colum! est of the parties secured th “1 trustees will offer for sale, frout of the premises r PTEMBER, A.D. 18m, at PCLOCK PML, “the following ia oF be” pact on WHE the under- auuc- PAESDAY, cash, the blanc roost’ from the 4: secured Ly ail eesh, at t Of 8100 rey AL depot re of ‘itd. tthe plied with om fiftecn devs t Urpetees reserve the tight to resell the risk and cost of c five days’ ieement we property, at purchaser, utter + in sonae neWsy din Washi De. AN at the purchaser's cost. ISTIAN G. ikl, NORTH Ry virtue of a 23d day of Mi 2006, folto of Gol . cnred thereby, we will sell, front of the "premises, on” TUBSDAY, TEENIM DAY of PEMBER. A1, HALF PAsr FOUR « K PN, wil that jo of grcund in the cliy of Washington. in the U of Columida, known ax lot nuaiwred 449) in Cabot’s subdivision of square uumibcred six hundred and seventy-seven (G7r), according 10 the plat of sui subdivision, as t rs of ‘ord in che aifice af the surve: Mistriet of Columbia in subdivision Look marked N. Kat One-third cash, Walance in two equal fostallments, pevnble in ene and two from day of wale, with interest pars auaily at the rate of six (6) per cevtum per and secured by deed of trust on the praperty or all «ash, at the option of the parkas porlt of two hundred (200) dollars will At the time of wale. Converancing cost of purchaser. If terms of sale plied with in ten days from day of sale t Feserre the tight to resell at risk and cost of de- faulting purcha ALEXANDER H. TELL. 7 5 4th GEORGE H. PLANT, Jr, Bel -d&eds _ dae NOY M. B. LATIMER & ©0., ADC 1229 and 1281 G st. Executor’s Sale of Two Two-Story Brick Houses, Nos. 236 and 238 4% street southwest. ON TUESDAY AFPTERN a Ds TEENTH, 1896, AT HA =» infront of pr nee fourteen (14) feet north, ast, thence twenty CM) feet ) Tet West to #y st. and pl - $100 deposit will be required at the of sale on each property. All convevane ser. Terms from date of time at cost of the purchaser or jure sale to be complied with in ten day sale. WM. H. CRANSTON, Executor, N JOHNSON, AUCTIONEER, SALE OF UNREDREMED PLE oT EMH AUCTION oO TUESDAY | MORNING. SE NTH, AD. 1896. at TEN O'CLOCK, commence to sell at the establishment of 1. 1236 Pa, ave. 0... all ple ; rest Is overdue up to this ting of Fine Diamond Tings, Pins, Earrings, Gold, Silver and Metal Watches, Split-second Wat+lies, all kinds ¥, mssorted Ladies’ and Gents’ Beaks, Chocks, Music Boxes, Umi Geiber with g class of goods zeus & ally found in a tinue at oflown an office, ‘This sale shall e day. Ticket holders and . Kindly take notice. KE. HEIDENIEIMER “BATCLIFFE, SUTTON & 00., AUCTIONBERS. (Successors to Ratchfic, Warr & Co.) TRUSTEE'S SALE OF A VERY DRSTRATIA THRBE-STORY AND BASEMENT ay DOW BRICK HOUSE, NO. 2123 KS NORTHWEST. By virtue of a deed of trust. Liber No. 1714, folie 232 et seg.. eue of records for the District of Columbia, and at the request ef the party secured thereby. the ander- signed surviving trustee will offer for sale, by bite auction, in front of the premises, on Fici- DAY, EIGHTRENTH DAY OF EMBER, AD. 1806, AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK following described real este county of Washington, District of ( and described us Jot numbered seventeen Miller and Curusl, trustees’. subdivision of Io Mock numbered ten (10), “Kalorama I per plat recorded in Liber Count Of the records of the office of the sury District of Columbia jon, in said District, together with all the ents, rights, &e. : One-third cash, the balance in one and two sears, with interest from the day of sale at six per cent per anman, payable semi-anounlly, secured by deed of trust "on the property sold, oF all cash, at the option of the purchaser. “A deposit of $300 ptamce of bid. If the terms of wal with in fifteen days from the day of sule the trustee reserves the right to resell the praperty at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser, after five days’ adv ment_of such resale in some newspaper pub im Wastington, D.C. All conveyancing aud re- at the purchaser's cost — 2% SAMUEL CROSS, seT-d&ds Surviving Trustee.