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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-08

4 SPECIAL to the St. Louis
Globe Democrat from Houston,
which we publish elsewhere to-
day. speaks fayorably of the
heretofore aggitated plan Of
canaling the Laguna Madre and
other like bodies Of water on
the Texas coast. The article
speaks of efforts having
been made to build Il railroad
from Corpus Christi to Browns
vile and gives as the reason
for its non construction the cost
of bridging, etc. This is, how
ever, a grave mistake. A rail-
road built either from Corpus
Christi or Alice to Brownsville
would have but little grading
to do and but few bridges to
build, not to exceed three of
any importance whatever.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-08
INSANE ON SPIRITUALISM.

Cleveland, O., June An
entire family of seven were
taken into custody yesterday
charged with insanity. The
family consists of Henry Buch-
void, the father, Charlotte, his
wife, and two grown daughters,
Eva and Emma, and three
small children. All of the
members of the family are
strong believers in spiritual
.istic faith, and have been
locked up in their home,
No. 3 Beaver street, for a week,
holding wildly insane spiritual
istic seances. One Of the daugh-
tiers is laboring under the hal
Inclination that she is a spirit,
and another member of the.
family that the spirit must die.
The spirit was willing to be
sacrificed, but the arrival of the
officers prevented them from
carrying out their insane ideas.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-08
IMPROVING THE
TEXAS COAST.
Contemplated Canal from the
Mouth of the Brazos to
Brownsville.
special to the ST. Louis clode-femodrst

Special to the ST. Louis Glo6e-Deiaoorst.
Houston, Tex. June lone
of the most important improve
ments on the Texas coast is the
contemplated canal from the
mouth of the Brazos to Browns
vile, Tex, the little city at the
extreme Southwestern bounda-
ry Of the United States, and
which, with rail or other con
nection with the outside world,
would command a good trade
with Mexico.
Before the war Brownsville
was not only an important mil
itaFy post, but was one of the
greatest trading marts in the
Southwest, an immense trade
being carried on. The building
of railroads, however, soon sap
ped the commercial life of the
border metropolis, and to-day
Brownsville is more of a mem
cry than anything else.
During the past ten years
several efforts have been made
to build a railroad from Laredo
to Brownsville, and also from
Corpus Christi. The former
road has been suggested by
army officers on account of en-
aiding the Government to bet
ter control border forays, while
the Corpus Christi project has
been made from a strictly COM
mercial standpoint. The cost
of building a railway from Cor
pus Christi along the coast
would be heavy, on account of
bridging streams and trestling
low lands along the route.
As company with ample cap
ital has been formed, and, in
stead of building a railway,
will, practically build a canal
from the mouth of the Brazos at
Eelasco:
The plan is to begin at Braz
os River and dig a canal
through Matagorda Bay. The
land intervening between Mata-
gorda and Corpus Christi Bays
will be connected in the same
manner with Laguna Madre.
This will make a continuous
canal from Velaseo'to Browns
vile. As there is now a canal
connecting Velasco and Calves
ton, it will connect the entire
lbwer coast country with both
seaports, and Corpus Christi,
also, should deep water be sec
1red there: The canals and
bays will be dredged to such a
depth and width that ships
can. be towed. the entire dis
tanCe.
This canal will open to st.
Louis a large territory, which
can be reached by rail to the
coast, and thence by barge or
boat to the Lower Rio Grande,
andion to the Mexican side.
Railroads already operating
short distances will be extend
ed. St. Louis enjoys a good
tfs;le all through Texas and
Mexico, and this canal will add
to it.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-08
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Evening star., 1895-06-08
Sir Edwin Arnold on Port Arthur.

Interview in the New York Advertiser.
"Wss the Port Arthur massacre an evil
dence of high-minded unselfshness?' I in
quired.
Nothing has ever panied me more deep
ly'' replied Sir Edwin, but it has in no
sense induced me to change my view When
l first heard of it was inclined to doubt
the storys truth, but the evidence is over
whelming. and l must admit that the hor-
rible affair occurred But the surprise
should not be because this one dreadful
and bloody war-it should be because it de-
veloped only once. 1t must be remem-
bered that while the Japanese are by no
means barbarianS, the people with whom
they fought are barbarians of the crudest
sort. 1t must be remembered that while
Japan has had a civilization of her own
for centuries, she has only been open to
the influence and stardards of our civiliZa-
tion-the civilization by which we have as
sumed to judge her-for less than a quar-
ter of a century. Why should We not, in
stead of condemning her because of this
one tran5gressior, praise her for the Won
derful way in which on other occasions
she has ADAPTED herself to modern meth
DDS and developed modern mercies? Should
we forget that she had ambulance corps of
skilled physicians, equipped with the best
of hospital tents, instruments and meth
DDS, on all the battle fields but that one !?
Should we forget that these bands of mer-
cy worked as earnestly among the wound
ed of the enemy as they Gid among their
own? Should VIC forget all these bright
spotj, these evidences of more than mar
velotIs progres sveness, and remember only
the one blot of bloody Port Arthur"
Evening star., 1895-06-08

defense, scolding fercely. The men at the
game looked carelessly around and one of
them called out the monkeys name and
phrase of rebuke in Italian, wkereat the
tiny money maker shrank back into his
corner and dozed off again.
And so the ceaSeless round is kept up
day after day. Just whether these men
make more than bare living or not can
not be told. for it is impossible to learn
the terms of their arrangements with the
owners or lessons of the organs. Some of
them, with catchy airs and weil-tuned
strings in their instruments. must pick up
many dollars in the course of a week. They
seem. to take each other for granted, and
a their home d street there is very
little professional jealousy shown, though
they quarrel often enough over other
matters.
So the Washington people to be treat
ed to a better lot of cheap music for the
present Just how long the accurate tun-
ing will last is question. but at all events
the long-suffering ears of the people will
be grateful fer such small favors as the
man from New York and Italy has been
able to give them.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
a Journey to TimbuctOO.

Paris Correspondence London Standard
NJ. Felix Dubois, who was sent to Tim
buctoo by the Figaro, has returned to Paris
and publishes an interesting article in that
journal. He says in the Sudan the wild
beasts form infinitesimally small por-
ton of the animals of the country. The
traveller sees herds of beautiful cattle and
splendid horses and flocks of sheep. AS for
fever. if the European only protects him
self properly from the sun and takes qui-
nine as a preventive medicine he has not
much to fear.
The traveller from Senegal to Timbuctoo
begns his journey by taking the train from
Dakar to st. Louis. To proceed thence to
the Sudan the traveller takes the steamer,
furnished with all modern improvements,
or board which the living is good. The
voyage to Hayes lasts about eight days.
From Hayes, the capital of the Sudan, the
traveller again takes the train and crosses
q country which often reminds him of the
forest of Fontainebleau. At length he
reaches the Niger, where the traveller en-
barks en- board a great lighter barge pro-
peled by oars.
Dienne is the commencement of the mar
velous regions of lakes and luXuriant prai-
ries. with imposing herds of wild cattle
At length the sandy downs behind which
Timbuctoo is sheltered appear. Lying
like a sphinx at the gate Of the desert
Timbuctoo realizes all that her great repu
taton promises" During stay of several
weeks his interest was kept constantly on
the alert, and went on increasing. Timbuc-
too is the great city of the desert, the
Queen of the Sands, which sweep up
against it's walls and invade it's squares
and streets. 1t has from 1900 to 5000 in
habitants. There is not a vestige of a
monumental building, nothing but big
houses built of mud and straw or wood
The population consists of negroes with the
blood of all the races of northern and CEN
tral Africa in their veins. Such elements
which appear modest and at nrst discon-
cert the visitor, do not prevent the COM
merce of the city amounting to millions
of francs a year. NJ. Dubois prophesies
that the western valley of the Niger will
at a comparatively early date, become one
of the finest of the French possessions, if
its destines are contided to men who know
the country.
Evening star., 1895-06-08
ABOUT GoLFING STOCKINGS.
They Bind Wheclmen's Muscles and
Promote Vnricose Veins.


Promote VaricOse Veins.
From the New York Herald.
A comfortable fortune is waiting Tor the
man who will invent really good bicy-
cling suit for men. A great fuss Is being
made over the proper sort of cycling
clothes for wcmen, advanced and other
wise; but nobody seems to care rap
about the suferings OF poor, although
strong. man.
The fashion of wearing golfing togs Is all
very we'll for the dear boys who simply
make cute little trips to some twilighted
bower where they sip tea and let the ladies
admire them but there are others-several
thousand others-who find golfing hose
simply CALLING One does not feel the pun
ishment until he has pedaled five or ten
miles on country road. Then the fendish
folds of the stocking tops seem to squeeze
all the life out of his unhappy calves.
Their influence after a run OF thirty or
forty miles is simply deadening. They pro-
mote varicose veins.
There is a kind of harness of straps and
buckles for supporting the other style OF
stockings from the shoulder, but this is ir-
ritating 1t would be much more comfort
able TO appear in loose knee trunks. bare
knees and low rolled socks, such as held
and track athletes wear in the presence
of thousands of the very incest sticklerS
for the proprieties; but Mrs. Grundy would
throw up her hands in horror. Meantime
poor man Of the wheeling kind must con-
tinue TO suffer.
Evening star., 1895-06-08

on just as chesrtully when the organ is in
wretchef tune as when it is perfect, but
they welcome the advent of the tuner who
came the other day from New York, for
they have noted, in their keen business
sense, that the pennies flow in faster when
Their apparatus is in good order than when
it is {. tr4ivesty on time ana tune.
Just what the tuners name is no man
has been found who krOws. He is Italian.
though he speaks French, and he looks to
be man of excellent parts. He is dark,
and has a well-trmmei, pointed beard.
When seen by Il Star reporter through a
window at work the other day in wretched
house near the Emergency Hospital he
seemed 10 be in rather poor circumstances,
but he may have had on only his working
clothes, ana some fine apparel might have
been slowed away in a large black box,
Evening star., 1895-06-08
No Pull Necessary.
From the Boston Courier.

From the Boston Courier.
Speaking of the police board recalls a
story Of the police force which now finds
it's way for the first time into print. An
officer of the force met a friend a short
time ago, and, after exchanging the usual
salutations, inquired:
How are yez getting along?"
Pretty bad" was the reply; Il haven't
done a stroke of work for three months;
there's nothing to do. The blasted dimmi-
Gratis have paralyzed everything. begor."
"Why don't you try to get on the force?"
the officer inquired.
"'Twouldnt be any good to thry," said
the other. 81 have no pull at all, at ALL
Pull? 1t don't take any pub to get on
these days"
1T doesnt?'
mo. Why. there was Yankee got on a
few days ago."
Evening star., 1895-06-08
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.
Instances Among Plants Well ms
Among Animals.

From Meehans' Monthly.
Every one understands what is meant by
the imbecile, when speaking Of human be-
ings. The mental development Of the child
is checked, and even when such q child
reaches the age of manhood, 1t is still but
child in its feelings and wants; but 1t Is
not alone among human beings that the
characteristics of imbecility are found. In
almost all trees. the characteristics of the
ing the first few months of existence than
they are in after life. There is a matured
characteristic as well an infantile one.
The tulip tree, for instance, has its first
set of leaves entire, without any appear
ance of the lobe or the truncate termina-
ton which 1t assumes in old age but some
times these juvenile characteristics will be
maintained through life-and then We have
what is known as the liriodendron integri-
foha-that is to say, the entre-leaved tulip
tree. This is more particularly marked
among everGreens. During the first year
OF the arbor- vitae, pinus, cupressus. retino-
heath-like that is. extending from the
stem quite separate and distinct; but occa-
sionally there are individuals carrying
these characteristics through life; and
many of the so-called Japanese species are
merely vegetable imbeciles. 1t is not un-
common for acute observers to find
branches assume their adult form In many
individuals in this imbecile class. Just as
in the case of human beings there arc oc-
casionally instances where imbeciles as
sumo matured characteristics This is also
true of the animal world. A friend Of the
writer has an aquarium in which tad-poles
as well as other aquatic creatures are rails
ed. AS every one who is acquainted with
| the commonest events in natural history Is
aware, the tad-pole during its first season
| throws off its tail. pushes its legs and be-
| comes frog. In the case of the friend
referred to, he has a tad-pole which thrust
out its legs and then ceased to develop
further. After three years 1t Is still q tad
pole with its two frog legs, retaining its
tail and In all other respects it is a tad
pole with the tad-pole characteristic IN
tact. 1t may be termed froggy imbecile.
Evening star., 1895-06-08

For four years 1 was a sufferer from nervous
debility. During that time 1 took great many
remedies without getting any help until l tried
Pane's celery compound l took six bottles OF
that remedy and was cured. / cheerfully recon-
mend Paines celery compound
So writes Mrs. NJ. $. Schocnmaker of sol. Jane
ST., New York city.
Too many women needlessly suffer from nervous
troubles, only in the cities. but everywhere.
Their whole world too frequently lies inside the
four walls of their homes.
Think of the many persons. men as well as
women who spend most OF their lives barricaded
within the confines of their dwellings. Sum
mer finds them pale and tired out Their store of
nervous vitality has been slowly brought down by
vitiated air and sedentary life. Their whole sys-
TEN needs thorough replenishing. The nerves
want nourishment, the tissues are not half sup
Evening star., 1895-06-08

large. One of the more intelligent of the
men told the reporter that the organs cost
about 500 when new. 1t was impossible TO
ascertain whether the tuner is sent out by
the manufacturers of the machines gra-
tuitouSly, or whether he is hired by the
owners here or by the grinders of the or
gans to tune and regulate their cylinders
and get the strings in order.
lH the ItI!c alic.Way. that is rOcfed over,
there is almost always some sort of game
of chance going on. The reporter started
to go in, but was rudely ShOuldered out
again with scant ceremony. The four
who We're then playing We're seated on
boxes around a rude table mDroEised out
of some boards and Were Vehemently inter-
ested in the progress of the game, while the
trial strains of the tune that was then
under cultivation in the house beyond
tloated through the hot air. Excited eX-
CARNATIONS and violent gesticulations
marked the play and dark eyes glittered
renomously the luck turned back and
forth.
been brought in from the streets. and dis
abled by the removal of the turning handle,
which had been locked in a small box at
the end. The maEager of this organ had
Immediately gone TO small store across
the street and returned in moment or
two with his arms filed with greens for a
broth. Occasionally one of the card play
ers would spring up from the bench and
make d hasty trip to the corner saloon with
Il battered tin bucket, which he would bring
back filled with frothy beer. The game
would then be interrupted while the can
was passed around, each of the men TAX
ing a long. thirsty pull. Then the play
NTH its high-pressure interest would pro
coed.
over in one corner of the shed where the
men sat playing cards a uniformed monkey
was asleep, his whole figure expressive of
Evening star., 1895-06-08

great WEAKNESS. Ills
little cap had fallen
over his head as he
dreamed of cocoanut
trees and other mon
keys, and once in
awhile he ould
chatter a bit in his
S i e ep and t h e n
straig hten up sud-
denly, as though he
e KIP @ C I e d TO be
lhTashed for stealing
a nap. once the wo-
man gave him a sly
poke with her broom
handle as she passed,
and he SpraEp nm in
Evening star., 1895-06-08

piled with material for the repair Of their parts
and the great vital organs must have richer blood
to make them sound and active and to keep them
The nerves and brain need nourshment.
The power of refreshing aud reyiving every part
of the languid body is what makes Paines celery
compound the marvellous strengtbener and invig-
of this century 1t is this same capacity to
recruit the nervous system, to retuvenate
the blood that has enabled this remarkable remedy
to help many dehilitated persons and to restore
them again to firm health.
Rheumatism, neuralgia, pain in the region OF the
heart. debility and nervous weakness, showing 1t
self in any Of its myriad forms, are dispelled by
Paines celery compound. 1t feeds enervated tissues
all over the body 1t gives fresh vigor to the en-
tire nervous tract, the brain, the Large nerve
centers in the spinal cord and the nerves them
selves to their minutest ramifcations.
1t restores jaded energy. 1t sends new
blood coursing through the veins 1t makes people
WE'LL
Evening star., 1895-06-08
Class In Grammar,

From the Chicago Tribune.
William" said the teacher. parse the
sentence, Xenia has about 1900 inhabit-
ants"
William had not studied the lesson, but
he began boldly;
"Xenia is an active verb, first person.
"A verb is it?"
"Yesm."
"Can you give me some other sentence
in which it is used as a verb?"
"Yesm. 1 haven't Xenia over at our
house for long time"
Evening star., 1895-06-08

with express labels stuck all over it, that
rested in the corner # the room that served
al Gnca as a dormitory. dining room and
workshop
This man. who makes periodical trips
through the large cities where these :nl-
chGCs are III use, is combination
of piano tuner composer and mechanician.
He mus net only know how to get the
strings of the organ into perfect unison
ana pitch, but he must be abe to adjust all
the rather intricate parts of the apparatus.
The other da" he WAS engaged in the s,r-
organ w-tn 4 trio of new airs, or, one
of the IIiIans lettering near said, HE
putta in treta new d tune'a.''
Evening star., 1895-06-08

SOllQateQ with Oth-
ers, for the cylinder
Is just so larg re
around and can be
made no larger, and
one tune must be
compressed into one
revolution. Fl e n C e
the tune maker for
the piano organ is
really a musical edi-
tor, just as the edi-
tor of a newspaper
cuts copy and
pieces it together to
make a harmonious
whole to suit the
limits of his space
Evening star., 1895-06-08

street between 14th and 18th. is a head
quarters for the Italians of that part of
town.
The impression is pretty general that
these men-who numbered fully dozen
the other day-are hired by some unknown
agent-a sort of padrone-who leases out
the pianos to them at a certain sum per
LAY or week, and whose profits are very
Evening star., 1895-06-08
Especially in Connection With the
Cares Of Housekeeping.
TO MAKE THE HOUSE LOCK COOL
Take Things Easy and Smile When
Slight Disasters Come.
THE USE OF THE BATH
Writer Exclusi, ely fo- The Eyerlng Star.

EEP COOL! H . w
can one keep cool?'
a s k e d a W e a r y
mother the other day,
when the mercury is
hunting the 90's, the
BABY is broken out
with the heat, as
cross as two sticks,
and l am ready to
drop to sleep this
minute with weari-
ness, and it is not IL
o'clock yet? l don't
know how l am ever
Evening star., 1895-06-08
A PIANO HOSPITAL
The Street Musicians and Their
Out-of-Tune instruments.
ACURIOUS RESORT OF ITALIANS
Mechanism Of Piano Organ and
How It is Repaired.
IN LEISU URE NONE NTS
IN LEIS URE OMEN S
PIANO DOCTOR

+ l A n . DOCTOR
has recently come to
town, and the result
is that most of the
PIANO ORGANISMS the
Italians call these
machines, probably
out of fond remem-
brance of the old
fashioned barrel or
gan-are in fairly
good tune. Some new
selections, too. have
begun to be heard.
The Italians grind
Evening star., 1895-06-08
Not Interested.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Starting from her sleep, she seized her
husband convulsively by the nose and one
eyelid.
JOHN she cried, there's burglar 60
ing through your trousers"
What do you wake me for?" irritably
demanded the head of the house. Settle
it between yourselves
When the policeman OF the beat heard
her shrieks he merely listened intently.
Evening star., 1895-06-08

TO hETAIN AN ABUNDANT HEAD OF HAIR
OF & natural color to good old age, the hygiene
Of the scalp must be observed. Apply Hall 8
Hair Remover. je6
Evening star., 1895-06-08
The Musical Score.

Meanwhile the tuners eyes were con-
stanrly watching and consulting a sheet
of music that stood before him. 1t was a
badly soiled paper, oil which We're written
musical characters in a style that would
have done credit to some of the master
composers, so scraggly and unintellgible
were they to the unframed eye. With a
glee almost fiendish at times the tuner
would detect a note that had been missed,
and would seize a peg and hammer it in
with nervous energy in the right place.
still turning the cylinder back and forth,
repeating strains of the tune again and
again until it had taken on the right pro-
portions
Making piano organ music is not like or
binary composing, for there are parts that
must be left out, abbreviated, or con-
Evening star., 1895-06-08
Good business

From Humorstisches.
Want any mouse-traps? Come, buy
enc, do"'
mo, thanks; we have no mice"
Zach, I'll threw 'em in with pleasure!'