Hallowell Weekly Register

U o t o r l l An Independent Journal, Devoted to Home Interests. Established in 1878. VOLUME 21. HALLO WELL, ME., SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1898. NUMBER 15 “ FOR VALOR.” “ Were you so frightened about the AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. Western world. “The defeat of the but on his deathbed he declared that his baby?” she asked. Invincible Armada,” says Mr. Fiske, act was the result of misrepresentation Spring and Summer There never was an eight-year-old Miss Janet was a friend of Allan’s When Mr. Seward, at the very height “ was the opening event in the history and was therefore null and void. This boy who found so many things to be and moreover was the sort of a person of the debate on the slavery question, of the United States. It was the event restored his act intended to make his afraid of as Allan Brent. His brothers to whom yon find it easy to tell things, declared that the struggle between the which made all the rest possible.” daughter Isabella his heir. When Ferd and sisters laughed at him, his father so he confessed how afraid he was of two principles of freedom and slavery The awful blight which has fallen inand died Maria Christina was reigning gravely shook his head, and even his the dog, but how he had tried to be wa9 an “ irrepressible conflict,” he upon Spain and slowly but surely as Queen Regent and the little girl Isa mother called him a dear little coward, brave. clarified the whole situation. To a sapped the forces of her life, has rested bella was the heir apparent, just as SUITS AND OVERCOATS, but though he wras ashamed of himself, She looked rather puzzled as she patted great many reluctant minds he brought upon every one of her colonies. One Maria Christina reigns in the name of and often determined to be brave, his the plump hand. “I ;nn glad you tried home the unwelcome truth that, while by one those colonies have shaken off'a the little boy known as Alfonso XIII. compromise might postpone the final fears always proved stronger than his to be brave,” she said, “ but 1 don’t rule which became intolerable. Since The brother of Ferdinand, usually resolutions. There really seemed no know how you could have seen a dog on collision for a time, collision was the present trouble began, the Spaniards known as Don Carlos, but who indulged ALL LATEST STYLES and PATTERNS help for it till one afternoon when his the porch, for Dion went to the country inevitable; the two systems could not have assumed that they had the chival in the uame and title at home of Carlos father sent him with a message to his last week.” co-exist; one must destroy the other. rous instincts of gentlemen and that we Maria Isidor de Borbon-y-Borbon, in uncle, Professor Brent. Allan wras so certain that they went to For the same reason, the war between were a race of sordid traders bent only fant of Spain, entered his protest before I PRICES LOWER THAN THE LOWEST. While the professor wrote a note in the side door to look, and when he this country and Spain was inevitable. upon money-making. As a matter of the death of Ferdinand against all the reply, Allan’s attention was attracted by peeped cautiously out, there was Doctor It has been long foreseen; it has been fact, history can show no more appalling proceedings setting aside the Salic law a small object on the library table. It Marvin’s big bearskin rug thrown down postponed from time to time; but it could chapter of greed, cruelty and incom admitting the female line, and declared was a Maltese cross of bronze attached to air. not be avoided. To those most reluctant petence than the government of Spain himself the heir-apparent to the throne ASK TO SEE OUR LINE OF to a faded red ribbon. On the cross Allan’s face grew very red and his to have recourse to the ancient bar on this continent. It has been one of Spain. Immediately on the death of was a crown and a lion, and beneath eyes filled with ferr^ after all he had barism of war, there has come recogni prolonged carnival of theft and op Ferdinand the northern provinces of $7.77 S U IT S . these a scroll, on which were some let not been brave! tion of the fact that between the pression ; a systematic robbery of de Spain arose and declared for King ters. Allan was trying to make them Miss Janet wouldn’t let him run away civilization of the two countries no fenceless people without giving even Charles, as he was styled, and these peo out, when his uncle looked over hjs as he wanted to do, T ut kept him and division of the North American world the semblance of decent government ple were called Carlists, a name which shoulder and asked, “Can you read it?” comforted him, and finally heard all was possible, and that with a country in exchange. Corruption has eaten the continues to exist. Those who adhered “ For V-a-l-o-r,” spelled Allan. about the Victoria Cross. so blind to the movement of modern heart outjof Spanish administration,from to the existing government, the govern “ Yes, for Valor,” said the professor. “ You were brave in spite of the funny history as Spain there was no other the Covernors-General down to the ment of the Queen Regent, were popu “ Do you know what that means?” mistake,” she said. “ aad you will have method of settlement than war. most obscure custom-honse official. It larly called Christinos. “ To be brave?” another opportunity sometime, so don’t In this conflict the men of to-day are is reported on good authority that the The cause of Don Carlos, dear to the “Yes; courage; bravery; and this be discouraged.” Allan went home moved by historic forces which they did Spanish army in Cuba sell their arms to Spanish heart as standing for bigotry One-Price Cash Clothier, medal is what is called a Victoria Cross; feeling a little consoled, though still not set in motion and which they could the insurgents; that that same army is and despotism, seemed at one time like you see the V just below the clasp. rather grieved. not escape. The war now being waged half starved because the money for its ly to triumph, but was betrayed by one It once happened during a war with Miss Janet knew tie professor very is the end of the campaign which sustenance stops in the pockets of the of its Generals, Morotto. Don Carlos 141 WATER ST., GARDINER, MAINE. India, when a town held by the English well and from her he had the story. The began in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; 10apr98 officials; that gunnery practice is prac fled from Spain, and in 1844 abdicated was besieged, that one of the ammuni result was that he we «t to see his little it is the last act in the great drama tically unknown in the Spanish navy in favor of his son, the second Don tion wagons exploded. They had but a nephew a few day9 lat >r. which stirred the world when little Eng HEADQUARTERS FOR for the same reason. Everywhere cor Carlos. Cabrerea invaded Spain in scanty store at best, and there was great “ I have a favor to ask of you,” he land faced the immense power of Spain ruption has bred incompetency, unreadi 1849, but he neglected his, former prac danger that the flames would spread to said, “I am going sway for several on the high seas, and English pluck, ness, moral paralysis. There are noble tice of murdering and mutilating his Granite and Marble Monuments the other wagons, and to make matters weeks and I want yon to take care of skill, and audacity nobly dared and won, Spaniards, but they are the victims of prisoners, and his efforts were not sup worse, the enemy turned their guns the Victoria Cross for lie.” as did American pluck, skill, and conditions which have become chronic; ported with the former enthusiasm. Tablets and Headstones. against the spot to keep any one from Allan’s face glowed with pleasure. audacity at Manila. Between Anglo- there are brave Spaniards, but they are The second Don Carlos attempted to en approaching. “You see” the professor continued, Saxon and Spanish civilization there is helpless in the coils of universal mis ter Spain in 1848 and again in 1860, The lives of helpless women and child “ I think you were tru y brave the other an irrepressible conflict. The differences management and greed. when he was arrested and signed a re All kinds of Cemetery Work Done Neatly ren depended on that ammunition, and day. It is a very common experience are not merely in habit, dress, and Spain has been driven step by step off nunciation of his claims of the Spanish and Promptly. !@) Prices Right. yet it seemed as though nothing could be that the things we are ifraid of turn ont taste; they are divergences of principle this continent because her misgovern- throne. The present pretender is the done to save it, when a young officer to be quite harmless, r > I want you to so fundamental that they cannot co raent has been intolerable even to men third Don Carlos, grandson of the first, Tablets and Monuments, Granite or Marble, Cleaned with splendid courage dashed forw <1, keep ovi trying, and erhaps the cross exist in the same quarter of the globe.

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