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The evening times., 1896-08-07

On Thursday evening a moonlight sail
party was rendered the hostess and her
guests by several young gentlemen in the
neighborhood. at which a musical pro
gram was rendered and fruits and ices
served.
Miss Perdita Barber left yesterday with
her cousin, Mrs. Emma E. Brisbin, of I
street. for three weeks outing that will
include brief visits to the leading resorts on
the New England coast. Miss Barber will
sail. October 4. to resume her vocal studies
In Berlin.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Mrs. Joseph Meyer and SOD Eugene. of
Baltimore, are visiting Mrs. Meyers pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Rubensteiu.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Miss Nellie McCabe is spending the sum-
mer at Rock Greek farm, near Randolph.
Nd. where she is The guestof Mrs. William
Shafer.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

is the guest of Mrs. Walter Carpenter, of
South Washington.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Miss Bessie Hassan ha returned from her
visit to Washington Grove.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Miss Julia Middleton left yesterday TO
spend the remainder OF the siminerat Gath.
ersburg, Md.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

will spend the next few weeks at Brook
side, Md.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Mrs. W. A. Quick is visiting In Falls
Church, Va.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

DIR. G. H. Reardsley, medical director of
the navy, and Mrs. Beardsley, are guests at
the Brextop, Cape May.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

A house party was giyeniast week, from
Monday until Saturday, at the home OF Mr..
Lawrence Addison. of ST. Mary's county.
in honor of his granddaughter. Miss Jennie
Brader, ofSouth Washington. nd her friend,
Miss Mile Steele, of Baltimore.
The guests, who included three of Miss
Brader's scboolmates, Miss Mary Pine and
Misses Josie and Effie Page, of this city.
and Mr.. Horace Duvall, of Baltimore. spent
the days pleasantly, boating and fishing.
and the evenings in dancing, music and
games.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Mr. and Mrs. H. A Bolti have returned
from Atlantic City.
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Royal Blue Line Engines.
Burn coke. No smoke. No dust.
Prompt time. Excellent Dining CarA
t~2a. pr 81 -2n- anal Be .7.A.
The evening times., 1896-08-07
ANTIKOLERINE

tTsbletsl Cures Diarrhes. Dyscnsery and ali
sents a vial
The evening times., 1896-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Birch Of West Wash
ington are occupying their cottage at Wash
gton Grove.
The evening times., 1896-08-07
FOLKS LEAVING THE CITY
Tide of Summer Travel Shows No
Sign Of Ebbing.
DR.. BeardsIey and His Wife at Cape
May-N1rs. Harmon's Departure.
Gay World Gossip.

leave next week for month stay at At
lantic City.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
MALE AND FEMALE OAKS.
Interesting Researches Made by q FA-
NOUS ENGLISH Botanist.

Interesting Researches Made by a FA~
nous English Botanist.
Mr.. Knight, the eminent English bot
anist, has made some curious and in
teresting Investigations on the pro
duction of flowers of different sex in
the various species of the oak tree. He
shows that as a rule that species Of tres
bears the male and female flowers ON
separate individuals, but that these diff
ferent individuals may be made to pro-
duce flowers of either sex at will. In
forcing the male oak to produce male
flowers and vice versa, Mr.. Knight em-
ployed light and heat, regulating the
supply of both to suit himself, and ac-
cording to the end in view. This remark.
able series of experiments proved that
if the heat was excessive as compared
with the light, male flowers only ap-
peared. On the other hand, if the light
was excessive, and the temperature
comparatively low, nothing but female
flowers were produced.
In other species of trees which bear
the male and female flowers on separate
individuals the experiments of the bot
anist were not so conclusive as in the
case of the oaks. However, it is be-
lieved that these Investigations will
finally lead to the conclusion that in the
majority of trees and plants the culti-
vator will be able to produce sexes at
will. Many curious Investigations are
now being made along those lines and
we may expect surprising results.-St
Louis Republic.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12

of July for your accumulated wagesfw
$1,000 and you asked me to writa
in the check payable in gold" Ibid so
and you are a rabid fsee-siIvcd man.
want the bank, to my own knowledge
for 1 am a director of the bank-and
draw out $1,000 in gold and have got il
hid away in an old boot somewhere now
nobody knows where but you. An
other one of your fellow-laborers there
drew his back wages and followed me
out of the office and asked me if he could
get the check cashed in gold. told him
yes; but 1 said: You are a free-silveR
man, amt you?' Silver he said, for
the other fellow, but gold for me-"
then told the menrthat when money de-
preciated and they began to pay eight
and ten dollars for a barrel of -four, and
10 cents for meat that 1 pledged them ]
would not increase their wages and that
they would be much more discontinued
than they are now.
There are thousands of Disseminated
laboring men to-day who want a change
in the financial policy of our country,
but their wages will never SO up as
money goes down, if the free and un-
limited coinage men get in their work.
But they will never get it in, in my can.
did Judgment. 1 believe Mr.. Carlisle
said there are 400, 0G0 1000 of coined 81.
yer dollars in the treasury and sub
treasures now. Not a bank will hfRe
it, though he proffered to pay the x
press charges on it. He tells us agitin
that if all the mints of this country
were to run day and night they coald
not coin one-half the product of the
mines of America, and if we had free
and unlimited coinage of silver we
would soon have silver enough in our
vaults to bankrupt the country. Jtnd
these free and unlimited coiners are
packing all the gold they can get into
their socks and boots and refusing to
take silver. Very few men want more
than five dollars in silver. Most all
men want silver in the sense that they
can get sixteen dollars in silver for one
dollar in gold and then go to the treas
ury and swap sixteen dollars in silver
for sixteen dollars in gold. Sixteen for
one when it is coming my way-sixteen
to sixteen when it is going the other
way"
The common sense of this country
and what patriotism we have left will
relegate the Chicago platform and can
didates to the rear; not because it iS
Mckinley on the one side and Bryan on
the other, but because the American
dollar must be as good as anybody's
dollar as long as the American people
are as good as any people. With the
kindliest feelings towards both candi-
dates, and with the settled purpose to
vote for lowering and Johnson, the cam
didates of the national prohibition par
ty, I will watch the procession and re-
joice over right consequences and be-
moan evil consequences, with the solid
conviction of mind and soul that l can
stand anything anybody else can stand,
and stand it as long and say as littla
while 1 am standing it.
SAM p. JONES.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
PoIsoned hx snaka.a Isrnath.

T. E. Cox, a young farmer living four
miles south of Columbia, Mo-, had a
narrow escape from snake poisoning,
yet he was not bitten. While in the
harvest field Cox captured a monster
r~attlesna5e. The reptile had IA rat-
ties and a button. indicating that it
was IS years old. Cox offered the
snake to the state university useum
but the museum authorities refused to
accept it unless its fangs were removed.
With a forked stick Cox pinned the
snake to the ground, and with the aid
of two other men, set about to remove
the reptiles teeth. He bent down and
was about to get hold with a pair OF
forceps when the snake Kissed and blew
its poisonous breath full in his face.
Instantly Cox became deathly sick.
His body became bloated and showed
every indication of snake poisoning.
The liberal use of remedies restored
him to consciousness in three hours.
He is now pronounced out of danger.
The snake was killed.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12


II, whether it be silver or gold or green.
backs.
But we do want ornething done to re
vive our Industries and put the wheels
in motion and increase the values Of
u lands and products. We want our
boys to have something to do at home
and nothave 10 go away in search of en-
ployment. We have six boys. and they
are scattered from New York to Mexico.
There is another lamcntable conse-
quence of the present distress. The
marriage of young men nnd maidens
has almost ceased to be. Ayoung man
who is working for $50 or $40 a month
can't afford to get married. Parents
will strain themselves to give their boys
a collegiate education, and when they
get their diplomas there is nothing for
them to do. The girls who graduate
come home refined and cultured and
would marry if they could select a mate,
butthey can't they just live along
in n state of innocuous desuetude. There
are at least 25 of either sex in this town
who ought to mate and marry, but they
will not. When l was a young man
there was no trouble about marrying.
Everybody got married. 1 could have
married three or four girls, and my wife
had choice of half a dozen young men.
There vas something for everybody to
do.
Now, we don't expect Mr.. Bryan to re-
form all the evils that have befallen the
country, but we do expect him to veto
all the extravaganza of congress. The
reform must begin right there. This
last congress spent at least $500, 000,.
900 than was necessary, and it waA
spent on the !og-rolling principle of you
vote for my bill and I'll vote for yours
Considering the hardness of the times,
these appropriations were outrageous.
We want Mr.. Bryan there to watch
them and curb them like Andrew Jack
son did. That he will be triumphantly
elected we have no doubt. It is in the
air. We feel it and breathe it. My great
regret is that Iwas not in Chicago to
hear him and feel good all over and
have a little hysteria myself and feel
the turkey bumps rise on my spinal col
umn and shed a few tears of delightful
emotion as I drank in the thrilling elo-
quence of the boy orator, as they call
him. I wouldn't exchange him to-
day for all the old political hacks in the
nation. i read all that Barrett and
Adamson wrote TO my family and
all the extracts from the press, and
it did us all good that a good and
great man had suddenly arisen and
would redeem the nation from its dis
tress and its corruption. Hurrah for
Bryan, of Nebraska. I've got a touch
of hysteria right now.-Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12

vailing crop beats all the fables that
are told of vineyards and cranberry
boys.
Two hundred acres of rooms, halls
and corridors, 20 miles Of covered piaz-,
"a, planted with rocking chairs GOO to
the mile, 100000 big trunks, weighing
when full 1000 tons; $4,000 to $75, 1000
a day in board bills and the other things
in proportion-ah, well, Saratoga car
afford to be a little less than as full as
it might be!
Anything more gay and Kaleidoscope
than Broadway and South street and
Union avenue during Mediterranean
rage parade it would be difficult to
imagine. The tone of the town is not
very athletic. Partly, no doubt, this is
because of the heat, but I am fanciful
enough to ascribe it quite as much to
the primeyal Americanism of the guests
who here resort. They have not alb
sorbed even the good customs of our
English cousins. Less than half as
many summer residents in Newport
play twice as much tennis and ten times
as much golf, not to speak of yachting,
which is Viewpoints ancient hobby. and
bicycling, which you'll find everywhere.
But in devotion to the horse, Sara
toga yields not to any town on earth.
There is little riding, but much driving
of fine steeds by men with the Ratchet
faces and thin chin whiskers of the ira
ditional Uncle Sam, men who might be
deacons or bunco artists so far as their
looks are self r~evelatory; by fat men
with huge mustaches of the urban type,
and by women who handle the reins as
well as il they had lived in Lenox all
their lives.
Giving themselves up wholly to look
ing the part, there are the dressing
women to whom Saratoga is the great
parade ground. They stroll, they shop,
they drive in gowns not to be surpassed
on this oblate spheroid. For driving
wear 1 noticed to-day as particularly
pleasing a shepherds plaid in black and
white, whose black satin cuffs were
turned back from the wrists, whose
broad black satin corselet belt had q
band Of stiffened white leather down
the front, whose bodice displayed a
mass Of lace escaping between the triple
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12

lapels Of a jacket which had triple
shoulder capes to match, over the tight
sleeves.
Far more Frenchy in it's effect was a
dotted muslin gown, whose Vandyke
hem was frille6 with lace, and whose
tight, wrinkled sleeves were draped
with scarves of lace edged muslin.
There was a wide corselet of chine rib
bon tying in a huge bow behind and fall
ing nearly to the ground. The bodice
was crossed with lines of cream inser-
ton, dividing it into big diamonds. AS
the taste of Saratoga is distinctly more
French, less English, than that at New
port, this gown is a hot favorite on the
street, and the weare is made content
Ky envious glances.
1t seems that, among the devices for
c~oncealing the shoulder of the new
sleeve the arrangement of a little cape
on either side of the favorite. 1t may be
triple, as in the shepherds plaid gown;
it may be double, as in the black chif-
fon bodice marked with lines of Jet
worn over a black silk skirt; it may be-
single, as in the dotted muslin. How
long will it be before the new sleeve
will cast off all DISCUSSES, and stand re-
vealed, its own slender self from wrist
even unto shoulder?
The story of one little mode is laugh
able. When the Yale oarsmen went to
their slaughter at Henley, SO many
Americans were in town that the Lon
don shops were overlooked with gala
costumes of red, white and blue to
touch their patriotic pockets. English
women began wearing the combination,
too, partly out of compliment to the
crew and to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery company of Boston, and partly
because the gowns were pretty; and
now the tri-colored costumes come back
across the sea again with the cachet of
British approval! The colors are usual
ly mixed in the proportion of a good
deal of blue, less white and least red
say, for instance, a dark blue skirt, with
or without white braid, and a bodies OF
blended blue, red and white, with blue
sleeves.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
Presence of Mind.

Patrick was lying in bed in a hospital.
Ee had been brought in a few days before
after a severe fall from the top story of
o building on which he had been work
ing. With all his suffering he never lost
his cheerful spirits, and livened up many
of the other patients with his bright re-
marks and short stories. The doctor
happened along, and asked how he felt.
Fairly well, doctor; this right leg
of moline is a very ungrateful spalpeen
consitherin' that it wuz only broke in
wan place whin it noight have been
smashed in d dozen.'
"How did you fall, Patrick ?" l asked.
~Did you lose your head?"
Faith. no; sure it was me footin' OF
lost"
What time did it happen?"
swell, Oh wuzn't so sure before 1 fell
but / wuz thinkin' comm down that it
wuz near dinner hour, an Oh wuz con.
WINGED of that same as Oh passed the sec
ond story, fer Oh saw the people in there
atm dinner."-Harper's Round Table.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12

Bunker Hill and Yorktown are at last
forgiven! And it's appropriate enough
that the tricolor should be raised here,
so nea the place of Burgoyne's sur
render.
A usual enough method of arranging
the colors is to wear a red leather belt
and red chiffon cravat with a blue and
white gown.
The rule of the paradise plume is uni
%versal, but it admits exceptions. Ex-
captions in favor of black and white
ostrich plumes. Exceptions in favor Of
stuffed birds of vivid, lustrous green.
Exceptions in favor of flower hats of the
most eXuberant sort. Saratoga, blessed
with a high percentage of sunny days,
makes great use of shade hats. Brims
are broad and are supplemented in their
complexion saving work by gay lawn
parasols and silk Innings and rutfled
lace-strewn edges.
Hotel hops, gay enough in effect,
though the dancing seems sometimes to
lack ~spontaneity, reveal the fact that
yellow is in its varying shades a prime
favorite for gala use. Wide skirted
gowns of stiff, heavy satin rich with
avalancLes of gold lace and clusters of
yellow roses nave an indescribably mag
nihcent effect. Pearls are a favorite or
nament with costumes in yellow.
OF course, there is the pretty girl, in
the simplest kind of costume, pale pink,
pale green or blue or simple white mus
lin, and, ali mel How she outshines the
gaudy old tabbies who line the walls!
have said before that Saratoga is the
paradise of the girl. 1 might add that
it is a paradise for others because of the
young girl.
ELLEN OSRORN
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
ELLEN OsBORNs LETTER.
The Carriage Parade and Side
walk Show in Saratoga
Shoulder Capes for New sleeves-Flutter
ing Gowns of Frenchy Eject and Mar
velous Shade Hats Make Gay the
village Streets.
1Sgs.l

LSO& - ~
If Saratoga is not quite crowded it
Is because Saratoga is in hat respect
peculiarly hard to crowd.
Here is a village of a little ever 10000
permanent residents. 1t has a single
hotel, five stories high, which covers
and incloses the area of st. Peters
church in Rome and which may have
20 acres or SO of floor area. 1t would
hold the entire population of the village
on one floor. 1t will "eat and sleep
over $500 people.
There is another hotel, only q few
inches smaller, which IS also longer,
however, than any outside of Saratoga,
There are little inns which would be
huge anywhere else. Altogether, the
hotels will accommodate from 10000
to $4,000 people, according to the degree
of pressure. Half the houses are board
ing houses during the season, and there
are sanitariums and other odds and
ends of burrows into which folks can
crawl o. nights.
People say here that 10000 guests
can be taken care of, by q trife more
than one-third of their number. This
passes the arithmetic of those who are
unable to make more than $4,000 o.
so as the sum of all the accommoda-
tions. But the Saratoga permanentS
are like Napoleon. When, in adding
up their battalions, they make AN error
of a few thousands on the right side
they prefer not to be reminded of their
error.
Let it go at the smaller figure. Even
at that, there are over 200 acres of floor
space devoted to guests. And the
money return per acre from the pre-
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
Too GOOD : subject.

Gentlemen" said the professor Of
hypnotism, in an oratorical manner,
'you will observe that the subject be-
fore US has been in a deep hypnotic
sleep for seven days, but with a few
simple passes I will now restore him to
full activity"
But, despite the professors efforts.
the subject slumbered on, nor did he
awaken until the rush Of spring trade
was over
BY a fatal oversight the professor
had selected a dry goods merchant who
never advertised.-N. Y. World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
THE JAR OF RIDING.
Many Devices TO Prevent 1t Have Beer
Patented Recently.

Many Devices TO Prevent 1t Have Beer
Patented Recently.
The trend of the most recent develop
ments toward mechanical Improvement
of the bicycle appears to be in the di-
r%ection of devices for lessening the jar
of the roads. Investigators all over
the country who are working on wheels
seem to have picked this line as the
most necessary and profitable in i'm.
proving the present form of the BIZ
cycle.
AS the result of this Iabors there are
at least a dozen devices of this kind re-
Gently patented, and probably a hun
bred at present in the patent Office or be-
ing experimental upon. Of those al
ready in use air cushions and springs
r the principal means employed to
make it easier for the riders. There are
several varieties of the so-called cush-
iop-frame machines in which springs or
pneumatic cylinders take up the vi
bration of the frame of the bicycle.
This type appears to work fairly well,
but its opponents claim that the inser-
tons of the cushions weakens the strrrc-
ture of the wheel. The same objection
is found with the pneumatic hub BIZ
cycle, but as in the other types, ease of
riding is frequently enhanced.
Besides these varieties there are a
number of devices which have the merit
of being easily applicable to the or
binary wheel as at present constructed,
without the necessity of a change in the
/ Fan IL
matte saddles, the new spring saddles,
the spring seat posts, and the pneu-
matte handle-bars. All of these appear
tn be improvements in the right direc-
ton.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
OrlcinaI Ike nn Earth.

The very first living thing to appear
upon the surface of globe-in other
words, the earliest distinctly organized
animal whose fossilized remains are
found in the rocks which go to make
up the earth's crust-was a three-lobed
worm called a trilobite. According to
the biologists it was the first created
being that had a dis tinc animal organi-
zati01.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
Cause and Ereot,

"To what do you attribute the re-
markable increase of kleptomania In
late years?"
ITO the fact that the dry goods stores
keep more detectives."-Bay City Chat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
she had s~cruples.

"Why did Mrs. Straitlace object TO
young Likely's visits at her home ?"
"She objected to his dancing attend
ance on her daughter."-Detroit Free
Press
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12

Maude-Don't you think bicycling is
intoxicating?
Cynicus-That's according to how
many road houses you stop at.-uP-to-
Date.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
Maximum Ocean OoIdnaa..

The ocean waters reach their maxi
mum degree of coldness at a depth oi
about three-fourths Of a mile below ths
surface.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-03-19
Butler Bubbles.

Mrs. Maggie Butler is on the sick
list this week.
Several Of our young people at
tended reading circle at Webster
last Saturday.
Miss Candse Ash returned from
Webster last saturday.
Eddie Potter is conyalescent.
The literary program of last Sat
urday evening was well rendered
and duly appreciated by those
present. 4 mixed quartette by
some colo'l passons who Glanced
to By present was II leading feat
ure.
Miss Pickett, VINO has been visit
ing Batter friends the past week.
return.d to her home near Waubay
the FIRST OF the week.
II. Il Ash aud wife drove mp to
Websser on Monday.
DUKE.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-03-19

The Ohio Republicans in state
convention put the following senti-
ments of VIM. Mckinley as the
financial plank in their platform
We contend for honest money, for a
currency OF gold, silver, and paper with
which to measure our exchange, that
shall be as sound as the government and
as untarnished MS its honor; and, to
that end, we favor bimetallism and de-
mard the use oil both gold and silver as
standard money, either in accordance
with "a ratio to be fixed by an inter
national agreement, ii that can be OBJ
tanned, or under such restrictions and
such provisions TO be determined by leg
islation as will secure the maintenance
OF the PARTIES o. the values OF the two
metals, SO that the purchasing and debt
paying power OF the dollar, whether OF
silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all
times equal.