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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
WAR CAUSED BY a SLAVE.
Half-Breed Seminole Girl Brought About
the Conflict in Florida.

Ha1f-BreedS Seminole Girl Brought About
the Conflict in Florida.
In 1885 a Toung woman, with a party
Of Indians visiting Fort King, was
seized and carried off al a fugitive
slave, on thu ground that her mother
was an escaped slave who had taken
refuge with the Indians many years be-
fore. That her father was an Indian
and she had been raised an Indian did
mot count for anything. legal claims
Of ownership in the mother embraced
her also. That was law at the time
the white mans law.
Naturally, the young husband, un-
tutored savage that he was, could not
recognize its justice. Proving both elo-
quent and brave, he soon had every In
dian in Florida on the warpath, nor
was it long before his name, Osceola,
was heard with terror in the exposed
white settlements. There ensued a
war long, costly and bloody, out of all
proportions to the number engaged. It
Is probable the Indians did not number
1890 warriors, but in thu four years
required to conquer them 800 white
lives were sacrificed.
With the Indians it was q bat, le a
outrance. They had many wrongs 70
ayenge, which lost nothing in the fervid
eoloring Of Osceola's e~lo4uence. De
feat meant transportati II to an un'
known country, far toward the setting
sun. Osceola claimed to aave been the
friend of the white man until white
treachery and cupidity eliminated in
the brutal seizure of his wife; in dig.
ging up tbs toma1awk Lac preached Z
war of extesm ination-till every white
man was dfived from Florida, or every
Indian died in the attempt-Lippin
colts Magazine.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
Two Women in tho Case.

snow, that puts me in mind of the
roarin big confusionment which come
to pass down in the old settlement last
week." Aunt Nancy went on, torectly.
big meetin vas goin on over at old
Elam church. There was two or three
new preachers on hand, and with two
sermonts every day-one in the mornin
and me at first candlelight. They had
a great outpourin and a blessed good
meetin.
"Over there on the other side of the
creek-a mile and a half, or maybe a
leetle better from the church-Joe Blew
ins and Lit Garvin live on joinin farms.
Their families are thick and ~neighborly
as you please, and they have got along
together smooth and pleasant like
white people ought to do. But one
night in durin of the meetin at old Elan
Misses Blevins she was ruther poorly to
be out and one of the Garvin children
was sick abed Of q slow fever. Now,
Lit Garvin is a shoutin Methodist and
never did blow in much time over at old
Elan, where they stick to all over bap-
tism as the right and proper way. Any
how, Joe Blevins was goin to church
that night, and it would seem like Misses
Garvin she was likewise also most crazy
to burn out and hear the gospel dis.
pensed with by the new preachers.
$50 It suited all around for Misses Gar
vim to go to church that night with Joe
Blevina, and she went with him. Sc
far all right. I couldn't see nothin
wrong about that. / wouldn't say fol
certain how much religion they have
got, but, at any rates, Joe Blevins and
Misses Garvin have both got their names
on the church books over at old ELAN
Consequentially it was plum natural for
both Of them to want to turn out to
meetin, and if it come handy and con,
venient for them to go together, that
was all right. If 1t suited them, and
suited Lit Garvin and suited Misses Blew.
ins, to be certainly it ought to Of suited
other people.
"But it would seem like it didn't sui
everybody. It didn't suit Misses Higgins
the wife Of Nick Higgins. She was
powerful bad pestered about it. II
hear her tell the news, it took 10,
Blevins and Lit Garvin'a wife sich
terrific long time to walk from home I,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
coarse mesh muslin Of light color and
substantial texture, is one of the popu-
lar summer materials.
M I my pnn
ELLEN OSBORN.
THE OLD WORLDS OLD FOLKS.
Little Bulgaria, with 1888 Centenarians
Switzerland with Not One.

AlBEAo WIFI 5000 G~5nGgm8ElhnN
-Swltzerland with Not One.
A German statistician has studied the
census returns Of Europe to learn a few
things about the centenarians of the old
world. He has found, for instance,
that high civilization does not favor the
greatest length of life. The German
empire, with 55,OoO,OO population, has
but rs subjects who are more than 100
years old. France, with fewer than 4O,-
100000, has 213 persons who have passed!
their Tooth birthdays. England has LAG;
Ireland, 57s; Scotland, 46; Denmark,
@; Belgium, 8; Sweden, 10, and Norway,
with 100000 inhabitants, %. Switzer-
land does not boasts single centenarian,
but Spain, with about $4,000, 900 popula-
ton, has 401.
The most amazing figures found by
the German statistician came from that
troublesome and turbulent region
known as the Balkan peninsula. Servia
has $50 persons who are moro than 100
years old; Roumania, 1904, and Bull
garia, 3,ss3. In other words, Bulgaria
has a centenarian to every 1000 in
~habitants, and thus holds the interna-
tional record for old inhabitants. In
1892 alone, there died in Bulgaria $50
persons of more than 100 years. In the
Balkan peninsula, moreover, q person is
not regarded on the verge of the grave
the moment he becomes a centenarian.
For instance, in Servia there were in
1890 some 900 persons Between LOG and
115 years, 1913 between 115 and 125, and
10 between 126 and 1875. Three were be-
tween 125 and 140.
Who is the oldest person in the world?
The German statistician does not credit
the recent story about a Russian 100
years old. Russia has no census, he says,
and except in cases of special official in
yestigation the figures Of ages in Rus
STA must be mistrusted. The oldest man
in the world is then, in his opinion.
Bruno Cotrim, a negro born in Africa
and now residing in Rio Janeiro. Co
trim is $50 years old. Next to him comes
probably a retired Moscow cabman
named Kustrim, who is in his 10th year,
The statistician says the oldest woman
in the world is 1870 years old, but neg
lects to give her name or address, pos
sibly put of courtesy, o perhaps in view
of the extraordinary figures which came
to his hand from the Balkans he thought
a subject only 1870 years old was hardly
worthy of particulars.-N. x. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

wings at the sides and S5t MkeWhA
The pointed basque gives the key to
the pointed lapels OF the jacket, which
is decked with old Sevres buttons.
Buttons, by the way, are getting to be
works OF art and almost the most costly
"fxings" Of a new gown. A girl pointed
a moral and adorned a tale whose
heroine was herself day before yester-
day when she babe me admire four
faience buttons on her bodice-four
seems about the correct number some
how-and added: HAnd so cheap, tool
I only paid a dollar and q quarter each
for them!"
A novel idea in making up grass
lawn is to split it into ribbons by
bands of insertion, through which baby
blue or mauve ribbons can be run,
Stitching, sprigging and such like de-
vices are in evidence upon the smartest
new frocks of the season.
A wedding reception gown Of rich
heliotrope green and gray shot satin
was worn here the other day, whose
bodice was of Louis Quinze brocade vel
vet in harmonious tints.
Many of the drapings of lace suggest
the ichu arrangement, and that is one
of the sweetest and most womanly eff
fects ever yet produced in the magic Of
dress.
The young millionairesses of this be-
millionaired town are not noticeable
upon the street by any display of cost
ly dressing. The usual effort with them
is to employ material of modest cost
and put a great deal of money and i'm
tellect into the making. OF course
costly material is in demand for ball
and reception gowns, but for outdoor
dresses the simplest serge lawns and
canvases are made up in exquisite good
taste. Several of the young creatures
take delight in spending a good por-
ton of the day in golfng or bicycle cos
tune, and in the august neighborhood
of the outer beach bathing is beginning
to engross some attention.
White lawn vests with tucks and frills
in front and with real stiff turnover
collars are among the novelties.
Two out of three smart street gowns
have short jackets.
Some of the white foulards of the sea-
son are decked with hounces of silk
muslin, but in general the plain skirt
holds it's own pretty well.
Bookmrslin, which may mean almost
kanytbing, but should meal a rather
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

the church and vicery yersary. Shg
had come over the same road, and che
would give her testimony on q stack Of
Tibles as big as the meetin house that
it took them two mortal Eours to walk
a mile and q half. She told the news
free and promiscus to the sisters, and
naturally Of course it then leaked out
amongst the men folks. BY the next
day it broke out in the general crowd
and was spreadin like q prairie fire on
a windy day in March.
Nov, in the name Of free grace and
common sense, what was the use Of
that? It was a pure family question,
Rufus, and if Lit was wilIin, and Misses
Blevins was wiIlin, / war more than
willin. But Misses Higgins she lowed il
took 'em SIGH a terrific l-o-n-g time
to go and come from church. Butwhat
of that? The weather hit was meltin
hot, and they didn't have to burn the
wind and make a race track out Of the
big road.
"Vhen meetin turned out the next
day Misses Garvin she had heard the
news and went pizen mad. She got
right out in the midst Of the crowd, she
did, and helt up Misses Huggins and
pitched in and naturally het the air
sizzlin hot all around. She would give
Misses Higgins to understand that she
was a lady, and she wanted everybody
to know for certain-oncst and forever
that she was a lady, herself.
"And if your Aunt Nancy amt all
sorts of a fool, Rufus, right along there
is where Misses Garvin dropped the jug
and split her molasses. If a lady is q
lady / never could see no reason for her
to climb up on a high fence and tell
everybody the news. 80 -
SHUT there they had it-Mises Gar
vim and Misses Huggins-up and down
and e and under-til they brung on
n pluperfect big scandalation in the
settlement, and all because they didn't
have no better sense than to turn their
tongues loose in regards TO things
which the general public didn't have a
blessed thing to do with.
"Finally at last, Rufus, you a take
out your little notebook and set you
down this: For the general run of
family trials and troubles and scandal
ations fresh air and sunshine is mighty
sorry medicine, whilst graveyard silence
is a dead-shot cure ninety-nine times
in the hundred.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

patched with leather, but the scorcher
on horseback doesn't lean over until
the backbone points to the horizon in
both directions.
Women's bicycling suits after the
British and inevitably inferior models
have begun to appear. One of these
is certainly simple-a plain gown of
linen in narrow up-and-down stripes
of BLUSH gray and white with a white
linen collar. There is a front plat with
thred white buttons, the sleeves are big
and the gown is simply belted at.the
waist. This is light, cool and appropri-
ate enough, except that the skirt comes
within six inches of the ground and is
therefore In emphatic nuisance to
which masculine explosives might do
justice, but mine would not.
The average cycling skirt in New
York is fully four inches shorter than
In Newport, and, being worn always
over boomers, seems to meet most OBJ
~jections of both the conservatives and
radicals.
A novel English boating or yachting
gown has revealed itself in a blue serge
and bolero jacket with a wide belt
corselet of plaid silk and an assortment
of pretty silk blouse waists. The
plaided corselet is the only novel ele-
ment in the scheme and the effect is
very pretty.
They keep talking and talking of
smaller hats, but hats are no smaller.
The quilted frill of tulle makes even
a moderate brimmed design look mas
sive. A pretty variant is a Spanish hat
Of tulle and cream-colored lace, the
brim SO straight and the lace so close
quilted and loose-lying that the edge
looks almost as thick as a tambourine.
The crown is capped by just such an
other overhanging net of lace, giving
something of the beefeater effect.
White birds are a frequent decoration
of the seasons hats. Ospreys in green
and violet are used with cream-colored
lace and black velvet ribbons. Violet
millinery takes violet trimming Of
plumes and velvet-rather bot-looking
for any place less cool than Newport.
The most curious fad of the moment
in millinery is the frequent use of fruit
in hat decoration. A red hat trimmed
with cherries sounds rather odd, but
It's perfectly practicable. A small
straw hat whose high crown is tied up
with black velvet ribbons is decked
neatly and not gaudily with cherries
and c~urrants. / have as yet seen nc
similar use made of watermelOns.
Embroidery is one Of the darling de-
vices Of the year. About half the swell
dresses one sees have short embroid-
cred jackets or short coats of china silk
Crepe de chine and foulard are perhaps
two Of the most fashionable materials
of the hour for rather dressy dresses.
Shot canvas in blue and green Is the
basis of one pretty costume that has
been much admired in Newport this
week. The vest is of soft yellow &C.
cordion-plaited silk, partially veilet
with ecru guipure. There is a higf
stock collar Of velvet ribbon with fa1
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
Thero win Be a Funeral Then.


She is so bright, and so newsy, and
SO fresh; and when she turns her
mouth loose in q runnin conversation
she can-spit out good to the
square mint than three or four com
mon m With only two eyes and
two ears, it is one of the most strangest
things in this green old world to me
how Aunt Nancy can keep the general
run of things for miles and miles
around, and pick up SO much news
"comin and a-goin," as she is so won't
to say.
But that dear, delightful old soul
don't give out no news on her own hook,
only that which she has seen with her
own eyes. 1t mought be that she will
sometimes deal in secondhand news,
but in that case she takes particular
pains to tell you where she got the
goods, so you can pay your money and
take your choice.
''The Lord knows I do raley love to
talk, Rufus says Aunt Nancy to me
that night when we went out on the
back porch to take a social family
smoke, "And jest as long as 1 can
keep my talkin machinery in good
runnin order you are more than prob
able to hear from me oncst in awhile.
II it ever comes to pass that you
mought hear the news that Nancy
Newton has quit tallin, you better sad
die your horse or hitch up your mules
and come on down to the Panther
Creek settlement. The funeral will
come off at the usual hour, with your
Aunt Nancy ridin feet foremost at the
head of the procession.
81 know you have lived a good long
whet and learnt a whole passle in YOU
day, Rufus, but if you don't know il
already, by the time you have lived as
long and looked upon as many sights
and scenes as your Aunt Nancy, you
will find out that it don't pay to talk
outside of the family touchin the things
that belong to the family. You car
make a great big rucus out of little
more than nothin if you only tell the
news and heat it hot and keepFit goiT
and GROWN. 1t mought be a little
fresh cut, or it mought be a rale bat
old sore, but many a time it would hea.
over and the people in general woulc
forget it if you didn't keep on pickiI
at it and foolin with it,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
Fish in Desert wen.

The statement has been frequently
made that many of the new artesian
wells on the desert of Sahara OCCASION
ally eject small fish. This statement.
which has been generally discredited,
has been proved to De true by M. Desor.
the Swiss naturalist. After his return
from a trip of exploration in North
Africa M. Desor wrote as follows: II
found hundreds of fish in the streams
leading from the wells out into the
sands. 1t is impossible that they should
come from any place else than from out
of the wells, for the water is not in
communication with any basin, creek
or river. The fish, saw at the oasis of
Ain-Tala belong to the family of carps.
The most curious thing respecting
them is that, although coming from u
depth Of from any place between 200
and 500 feet, they are not sickly or mis-
shapen, and have large and perfectly
formed eyes. This Is contrary TO tho
general rule, such creatures from sub-
terranean waters usually being totally
devoid Of the organs Of sight"-Chica-
60 Chronicle.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
OSBORN's LETTER.
Tbs Colonies Recaptured by the
British Dressmaker.
bicycling and Outing Raiment-The Pop
ularity of Crepe de Chine and
EOulard, and the Latest
Ideas in Millinery.
-[corYR1eHr. 1sgs.l


OF what use was it to conquer the bold
Britons, or rather to scratch and claw
the gripping hand of monarchy
until it was glad TO let goP OF what
avail the glories Of the glorious Fourth,
If the reconquest of the revolted col
onies is to be accomplished by the dress
makers, and if all the ~heiresses of de.
mocracy are to sigh for the ieshpotso of
the ar~istocratic Egypt?
Few flags fly from the broad piazzas
Of Viewpoints enormous cottages this
Freedoms day. To few are its bang and
hustle more than a nuisance to be en-
dured. There is powder smell enough
down in the old town where narrow
streets are walled in with quaint
shingle-aided houses-the old town
leading down to the harbor, whence is
sued the snappish little pirateers that
so worried big Britain in the long war
but up in the new town thatin privateer
days had never been dreamed of the day
is only a species of Sunday with a smell
of sulphur thrown in.
In some things, though, even fashion
able society has made a declaration of
independence. It refused crinoline; it
has reformed the corset; it has per-
sisted in the use of the bicycle despite
those who would have frowned it down.
Yes, 1 really think fashionable society
is more sensible now than it was in
1876. The main difference is that in
these days everyone tries to be more
or less in the fashion instead of only
a few; and hence a minor folly may do
harm to a greater number than of old.
Not that all fashions follies are harm.
less. Some are merely amusing. To
speak for a moment of mans garb, il
is now absolutely correct to patch a
mans bicycle suit right where the wear
is greatest with the same cloth as the
cuff, OF bottom, of the knickers, usually
a fawn gray. And funny enough il
looks too. OF course riding breecheS
have from time immemoria1 beer
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

shot I'll It raIey looks TO me
like everybody and everything OF
the place, even to the cats and
the dogs, was glad when Aunt
Nancy Newton come up from Panther
Creek and showed down at the appoint
ed time one day last week. lido believe
in my soul that Aunt Nancy-whilst
she calls herself nothin more and
nothin less than a everyday, she wom-
an"-would fight her weight in wild
cats in case Of a pushency. And yet
she has got the softest and most handi-
est way of any woman / have ever saw
to make you laugh and forget-to let
the sunshine in and shut the shadows
put and wipe the tears away.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

The greatest naturalist was Lin
naeus.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

An Englishman was once in a train
which was @held up' by Carlists in
Spain. and overheard a Spanish gentle-
man. who was overcome with fright,
murmuring to himself: ITO die 80
young. to leave my wife and babies; oh,
it 10 aadi and / haven't even had my
breakfast -TiteBits.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
asPREADIN THE NEWS
That Plain Old "Female Lady
from Down on Panther Greek.
Our Aunt Nancy Newton's Tnlkin
Machinery in tool Runnln Order
As"Tremendius sig so~andaIatiOn"
-@seein Things at Night"
Hit is so monstrous seldom like and
rare in this present day and generation

of American
people that you
can meet up
with n of
these plain old
hint-and-s steel
women-with a
head as long as
a flour barrel
and as level as
a squash 10
hand high, and
heavy as buck
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15
PolIte young Nan.

Hortense-That Mr.. Still never opened
his mouth once. all the time l was talk
ing to him.
Hattie-Didn't yawn once, chr
Yonkers Statesman.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-08-15

Tea was arst brought "a this coun-
try in 1919, a consignment arriving az
Boston in the summer Of that year.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-28

The estimates were for from 7oVow TO
1900 bales.
Houston expects 1000 to $500 bales tomor-
row, against le,s2i on the same day last
year The estimate at New Orleans IL
for 100000 to 1900, against 1910.
Tho bears say 10000 bales VIII be rec
ccivcd at the ports this week. against
100, 900 last week.
Y. Cargill received the following from
New Orleans at 2;56 y. m. Market atcnd'-
err on bidding up January and February
by local bulls"
Naught & Kennedy of New Orleans
wired u. II. Richardson at il;aa n. IN.
Now York Germans selling distant post
tons; Liverpool wires rumora OF n syndi-
cats forming for largo tendets' demand
from trade there good"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-28
COFFEE.

New York, January 27,M Set options
onened barely steady at l0N20 points de-
cline. ruled generally weak under Eu-
ropear cables and foreign and local sen.
decline; sales 81 25o. bags Including Jan
Aio weak No. 1874 mild dun; Cordova
i7Tg1S, sales $50 bags Maracaiho sold and
shipped. Warehouse deliveries from New
5 York Saturday slS2 bags; New York stock
today 26f III bags United States stock
rs eiii. afloat for tho United states 3D.
an. total visible for the United states
kss 9e5, against So lti bags last year.
p;o. January Y--Coffee-No. Rio Ia
-oa rcIs per 10 kios: market flat: ex-
| chanre sid. cleared for the United states
iOeJ: stock 100000.
Hamburg, January G.-Coffee market
unehanged 10 Il pfg decline. sales 1000
| bags.
| Now Orleans. La. January T.-Coffee
| n,,iet, Rio. ordinary to fair I12Gs.
| t1avre January 27.-Coffee closed quiet
| A.. Iis6i,f decline: sales ls0p
sartos. January G.-Holiday; receipts
| eo.na. stock 1873 900.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-28

Now York. January T.--Govcrnmcut
bonds steady; State bonds Inactive. rail-
road bonds strong
Now York, January s7--Tha total sales
OF stocks today were 22a, 9s6 shares. includ-
il,g American Sugar 81, 800; st. Pail $3.50;
American Tobacco la,Gno, Reading 1b.ooo.
New York, January T--Bar silver 6,hi
Mexican dollars S.
New York, January T.-Hides steady.
New York, January T.--There was more
stir IN tho market than on any day daring
the month and quite a number OF repre-.
sfntnttves of cotton goods. except bleached
shittngs, received attention and some faii
engugements were reported. The who'll.
sale clothing traders were In moro force
than for some weeks past and some bust.
ness was laid out. Reports are current OF
sale OF 5Q,00 pieces Of g. squares cloth n,
IN at Providence.
New York, January T.--Wheat---Expo ports
~ an; SPOT irregular; No. red Gsss; No. !
hard T5Ss (. o. b. afloat: options opened
firm and closed unchanged to u lower;
No. red January 1sss; May I'M