Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1898, Page 11

A SPANISH WOMAN'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE! The Difference Between Spain’s Brutality to Women and Anglo-Saxon Humanity. Among all the incidents of the Spanish-American war, one of those which best illustrates the Spanish character is the story of a wealthy wo- man refugee driven from Santiago by the fear of bombardment, return- ing again to find her home and prop- erty pillaged and destroyed by sol- diers of her own race and blood. Imagine, if you can, such an oc- currence in an American or an Eng- most object of their.earnest solici- tude? The kindest of husbands cannot fully sympathize with what he does not understand. However terribly a woman suffers, she hates to be com- plaining of ill-health all the time; she hates to acknowledge that she has any weakness of this nature. If she calls in the doctor, nine times in ten the inexperienced local practitioner does not diagnose the trouble cor- rectly. He prescribes for liver dis- ease or heart weakness, or he may say: “Your nerves and stomach need a little toning up; that’s all.” He will seldom recognize the fact that the real trouble is in the organs distinctly feminine, the special, intricate and sensitive structure which fits a wo- man for wifehood and motherhood. WHY WOMEN HESITATE. When a sensitive, modest woman once fairly realizes the cause of the continual aches and pains that are “NO WONDER THAT SPANISH REFUGEES SEEK AMERICAN PROTECTION.” ish army! Imagine any one of the hundred inhumanities and atrocities toward women which characterize the Spanish race being duplicated under the rule of an Anglo-Saxon nation! Impossible! No wonder so many frightened teiugees look upon the American army as their deliverance from the hands of a brutal and inhuman mob. The way a nation treats its women is the mark of its standing among the work of nations, and shows in an in- stant its state of ci i agery. THE AMERICAN Americans exalt their women as the better part of the nation, and ren- der them such true, devoted homage as womankind receives in no other country in the world. It is not mere lip-service nor the . shallow gallantry which parades itself ‘in fine phrases and extravagant com- pliments. deference ward It is the simple and sincere of genuine manhood to- sex which includes their sisters, sweethearts and the wives. How fully do American women appreciate and reciprocate this obvi- ous sentiment of American man- hood? It is a question worth looking into. Do the women of our country fully realize the opportunities for happiness and power which lie within their grasp? If they should lose a large proportion of the queenly her- itage so freely accorded and which rightiully belongs to them, where lies the blame, and wherein is the re- dress HOW IT 18 SOMETIMES THWARTED. Many a woman—many a thousand women—throughout this land where womankind is loved and reverenced lead lives of constant misery and sor- row. Many a woman feels that her daily lot is wretched and unhappy beyond description. She is weighted down by a crushing burden of phys- ical weakness that her husband can- not understand, and for which he does not know how to make allow- ance, simply because he is a man. He forgets—if, indeed, he ever realizes—that a woman’s entire ex- istence, mental as well as physical, is bound up in and identified h the delicate and important special organ- ism of womanhood. When a woman is peevish, fretful, nervous, full of aches, pains and constaat miseries, he will seldom attribute them to their ectual cause. WHERE THE BLAME LIES. He will blame a woman’s temper for what is rightfully due to a condi- tion of disease and weakness. He will forget his loyalty and patience; grow careless of her feelings, ne- lectiul and even perhaps unkind. Rrhat should be the delight and com- fort of domestic life is embittered and sometimes almost destroyed through mutual ignorance of the great funda- mental facts which control and color the woman’s physical life. : Should there not be a more thor- ough confidence and frank under- standing between husbands and wives, and between mothers and daughters, on this all-important sub- ject? Ought not every one concerned to make this problem of repairing the physical capacity, upon which all other capability depends, the fore- sapping her vitality and making her life a failure, one of the first thoughts that come to her is a dread of the mortifying questioning, examinations and local applications which doctors so uniformly insist upon, and it seems to her almost as if it were bet- ter to endure her constant pains and miseries than submit to this embar- rassing ordeal. ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE. The fact that such an alternative is entirely needless; that there is a per- fect and unfailing remedy by which her troubles may be absolutely cured in the privacy of her own home with- out resort to these repugnant meth- ods, comes to many a woman like a revelation of mercy and deliverance. “For one year I suffered more than tongue can express,” says Mrs. Lily Heckart of Bartlesville, Cherokee Nat., Ind. Ter. “I was in bed nearly all the time. I was scarcely able to work half of the time. I could not even dress myself. God alone knows what I suffered. I had falling of the womb so badly that at times I could not be turned in bed. I suffered from palpitation of the heart. I would of- ten faint away and it seemed as if I never would recover. I had sick headache nearly all the time, and also had St. Vitus’ dance. At the com- mencement of the monthly period the misery would be so great that I would be nearly crazy; this would last from twelve to twenty-four hours and I would suffer untold agony. When I would stand on my feet it seemed as though the top of my head would come off, and I had almost lost memory when I commenced using Dr. Pierce’s medicines. “I had doctored with five different physi- cians, but they did me no good. They finally said they had done all they could. WHAT HER DOCTOR SAID. “One of these doctors, of forty years’ experience, said to me: ‘I can't do you any good, so why not try Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription? So I decided to write to Dr. Pierce and describe my troubles. He wrote me a nice, fatherly, kind letter in re- ply, and I followed his advice. 1 took three bottles each of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ and by the time I had finished these I had no symp- toms of the old disease. I was soon able to do all my work. I now do all of my own sewing and am heavier than ever ‘before; I weigh 145 pounds, and my husband says I look the same as when I was young. Life is a pleasure to me now, instead of a burden, as it was before I com- menced using Dr. Pierce’s medicines. I can now enjoy the society of my friends, and Dr. Pierce’s medicines have done me more good than all the doctors ever did. “Three of my neighbors have used Dr. Pierce’s medicines and it has helped them all. I will take no other medicine but-Dr. Pierce’s and I rec- ommend it to all my friends. I am willing to answer any letters of in- auiry if stamps are inclosed for re- ply.” AN EMINENT SPECIALIST. This superb remedy was devised by an educated and experienced phy- sici.a, who for thirty years has feos at the head of one of the representa- tive medical institutions of America, the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical In- stitute of Buffalo, N. ¥. Here Dr. Pierce, as chief consulting physician, has successfully treated. more cases of chronic feminine diseases than any other physician in the United States. There never was another medicine devised which restored complete health and pure vital capacity to the womanly organism so promptly and radically as this matchless “Favorite Prescription.” It absolutely dispels all abnormal and diseased conditions peculiar to women, however severe and obstinate they may appear. THERE IS NO OTHER. It is the only medicine invented by a skilled and eminent specialist which banishes the anxieties of prospective motherhood, and relieves the trying ordeal of all its dangers and a large proportion of its pains and. discom- forts. “I began taking your ‘Favor- ite Prescription’ in August, 1897, and took it until after my baby was born in November,” writes Mrs. Mollie E. Grimes of Flomaton, Escambia Co., Ala. “I took three bottles of the ‘Favorite Prescription’ and one bot- tle of your little ‘Pellets,’ and oh, what an appetite they did give me! “My baby is now three months old and weighs fifteen pounds and a half. When she was born she was the fattest little baby girl you ever saw. She was the largest one of all my babies, and at the birth I had an easier and short- er time than I ever had. I suffered everything that flesh could suffer with all the rest of my children, and I was also subject to miscarriage. “After having this trouble twice, I was almost heart-broken to think I could not raise any more children and had to suffer as I did. I took your ‘Favorite Prescription’ and also your little ‘Pellets’ (I do not forget them, for they act like a charm), and now I am the happy mother of a fine baby girl. I am stouter and health- ier than I ever was. I think all pros- pective mothers should use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. I can- not praise it enough, for I believe it saved my baby’s life. What your medicine did for me I want pub- lished.” IT INVOLVES NO DANGERS. No alcohol nor opiate, no false stimulant, no dangerous narcotic of any sort or description whatever, enters into the composition of this great “Prescription.” It is utterly free from all those delusive elements which so largely compose various “compounds,” “malt extracts” and so-called “tonics,” which tend to give a mere temporary exhilaration _fol- lowed by severe depression, and are liable, if persisted in, to awaken a morbid, intemperate craving for alco- holic stimulants. Dr. Pierce’s Favor- ite Prescription is a temperance rem- edy, pure and simple. The strength it gives is temperance strength; true uerve force; genuine, sound, endur- ing vitality. Dealers in medicines everywhere are provided with this great “Pre- scription” and wili supply it on re- quest. Any druggist who attempts to foist a substitute upon his customers in place of what they ask for, clearly shows at once his lack of business honesty and his contempt for their judgment. Do not be misled or be- guiled. If you nave made up your mind that Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scription is the remedy you need, stick to it, and insist upon that and nothing else. A HUSBAND'S DUTY. Every husband of a suffering wife, every mother of a delicate, ailing daughter, should make it a business to write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, at Buf- falo, N. Y., for a letter of sound, sensible, professional adyice, which wili be sent promptly, and entireiy without charge. In any case, where desirable and practicable, Dr. Pierce will suggest special self-treatmenut at home without a physician’s aid. Inviolable confidence is, of course, the unvarying tule that governs ev- ery communication received by Dr. Pierce. No letter is ever published without the writer’s express permis- sion. No sensitive woman need hesi- tate to seek so certain a relief which involves no sacrifice of time or pri- vacy. , A GRAND VOLUME FREE. Every family should possess a copy of Dr. Pierce's great thousand-page illustrated Common Sense Medical Adviser—a magnificent home medi- cal library in one volume. Neariy a million copies were sold at $1.50 each, but a free copy, in strong paper covers, will now be sent for the bare cost_ of mailing, 21 one-cent stamps; or for 31 stamps, a heavier, hand- somer, cloth-bound copy. . GERMANY’S RED CROSS. An Appeal Made for Contributions to Aid the Society. The consul general at Berlin reports that the following appeal for contributions to assist the Red Cross Society in caring for the sick and wounded in thé war between the United States and Spain has been is- sued by the Red Cross Society of Germany: “Appeal: The war which has broken out between America and Spain commences to claim many victims, especially through raging diseases, so that through the inter- vention of the international committee of the Red Cross Society at Geneva a peti- tion for assistance has also been made here. “The undersigned central committee deems it as its duty, in view of the soli- darity of the relations between the socie- ties of the Red Cross, and in re- membrance of the assistance given to the German volunteer nursing of the wounded and sick soldiers by countries, to aid the American as well as the Spanish society of the Red Cross in their endeavors to alleviate the sufferings of the war through the contribution of financial agsist- ance. . “In order, however, not too greatly to re- duce our ipod funds, znih are for our own and local purposes mu We call upon those ‘circles in Germantr who are prepgred to make contributions. for the care of the wounded and the sick in tho present war, with the request to intrust us with the same, and thus place us. in the Position to fulfill the of Ped augeueise eee) \\ Ly 1 eee ee ee 11 b7aa it JE NWa ee ae) ees ee ent ee We Ba Eas NEW PLAN OF HIGHWAY Map of Section 1 Made to Conform to Act of Congress. No Streets Projected Within Subdivi- sions—Existing Streets in Agri- cultural Districts. Under the act approved March 2, 1803, and known as an act “To provide a per- manent system of highways for the Dis- trict of Columbia,” section 1 was prepared and recorded August 1, 1895. Condemnation proceedings were immediately instituted and the matter was contéstéd In the courts for two years, finally resulting in a victory for the act. It was, howeyer, found that there were many objectiens to the law as it stood, and as a sequencay:Cengress amend- ed it by the act of June a0, 1898. The amendment provided,; among other things: “That the map known as section 1, filed in the office of the, surveyor of the District of Columbia thg,gist day of Au- gust, 1895, under the proyisiqns of sald act of Congress, be, and thg-sqmo is hereby, annulled, so far as it coyera existing sub- divisions, and the C loners of the District of Columbia are ereby authorized and directed to forth withdraw the same from tho office of the surveyor and to discontinue all pending egnéemnation pro- ceedings relating ‘to -subdivisions included within said map, and within ninety days from: the of this act to pI Dassage amended plans for that part of section outside of exis i jons under the ‘Bui terms of sections 1 to 5 of said act, and said amendec plan when recorded wilh ern part, and a public hearing was today held in the board room of the Commission- ers to consider any suggestions or protests from interested persons concerning the lo- cation of any highway or portion of high- Way as shown in this plan. Some of the changes made over the for- mer plan, as will be observed from the map here shown, are as follows: The drop- ping out of 15th street north of Blagden’s subdivision because of the extremely broken country over which it runs, which would have necessitated great cuts and fills, and which would have affected grades on the east and west streets; also, the ex- tension of 14th street in a direct line from its terminus at Mount Pleasant. In the Ecriocs plan this street was broken at iney branch and placed in line with 1ith street of the city. The averue following partly up Foundry branch has been broken So as to include all the valley from 26th street to 7th street road. The section near the District line tas been treated in a more liberal manner, al- lowing for curved streets and greater lengths in blocks. The avenue located ap- proximately parallel to the District Ine, passing just south of Takoma, and which was laid out to a width of 160 feet, has been changed slightly in position and reduced to a@ width of 120 feet. Two avenues leading in a southwesterly direction from the 7th street road have been established on the most natural grades, that is, 1aid down cn the ridges or in the valleys. An entran to the Rock Creek Park has been provid south of Blagden’s Mill road. The Original Record. No streets have been allowed to be pro- jected within subdivisions, and the sub- divisions south of Spring road remain the same as originally recorded. The only plan provided south of the Spring road, through the few agricultural tracts, is to extend and connect existing streets as follows: er avenue and C. Lancaster, who stated ‘that he repre- sented the owners of the tract known as Malvern Park, south of the htwood Tace track, first addressed the Commis- sioners, and entered a protest against the extension of other than 16th street and perhaps one of the cross streets through the tract. He claimed that the new plan would take 30 or 40 per cent out of the tract, and its effect would be no less in- jurious and hard than was the first map of section one, which Congress recently set aside. He was proceeding to set forth these alleged wrongs when Commissioner Beach explained that the Commissioners are fully informed as to the past history of the highway extension question, and that all they now desired was to receive such protests or suggestions as interested persons might care to make. Mr. Lancas- ter then stated that in his opinion and in that of the other owners of the tract there exists no reason for the extensions through it other than those he had mentioned. ‘Fo carry into effect the new plan would, he declared, amount virtually to a confiscation of the land taken. He called attention to the Emery tract in Brightwood, which, he charged, has not been molested by the new plan, and he saw no reason for making any distinction between them. Approve the Pian. Messrs. B. W. Coleman, J. B. Sileman and R. M. Johnson approved the new plan, the latter stating that it appeared to him that a better or fairer one could not well have been designed. He declared that it was time to recognize the fact that it is .the purpose of Congress and of the Commis- sioners to make the city of Washington co- extensive with the District, and no land in ines as far as possible, in order to pre- their it eness. As to Join wiseet:-be urged that te be eerried wisn caine Mt mpletst at all tome eaiey on cee an them a view of promised to A SOLDIER'S MISTAKE. Takes Several Drinks and Imagines Vain Things. Patrick C: sary, a private of Company B, Gth New York Volunteers, was permitted to come to the city yesterday. It was his first visit to the national capital since his arrival at Camp Alger, nearly four months ago, and when he had taken several drinks he evidently conceived an idea that he was in a Spanish town. Policemen Béyce and Schuyler endzavored to reason with the sol- der, but he turned a deaf ear to them. They started him away from the disrepu- table locality, but to no purpose, and he bes came profane and abusive. “Guilty, your honor,” was the soldier's plea when arraigned, “but I want to say a word.” “What is it?” “Yesterday I got a pass that was good until 8:15 o'clock last night,” he said, “and it was the first pass Istad had. While in town I met some boys from the 3d New York, and they wanted to lick me. I wouldn't let them do it, and I got arrested.” “When we first saw him,” said one of the officers, “he was the center of a group of men on 13% street.” Witness also told of the prof. abusive language used a by the svidier. “Is it the usual custom to send thes? men