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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-25

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room at home decorated with American flags, and a big American flag hangs from the head of the bed. like to look at it the last thing before closing my eyes at night, and I want to see it the first thing in the morning. My father is dyed-in-the-wool Englishman, and I keep telling him that he ought to have stayed in England. But I would part from my family any time to fight for Old Glory. My body may be English, but my soul Is American"
 There is an officer of the deck, a girl of French descent, named Emily Le Gras She is a fine speaker and in her school days gained fame by her patriotic utter ances. She looks forward to the time when the officer of the deck will not pa- rade about the floor of Masonic meet ing room, but upon the quarter deck of a regular man-of-war
 Some of the girls in the Guards are talking about trying to induce the state of New Jersey to receive them into the national guard as a branch of the naval militia. But the older heads say that the time is not yet ripe for such progress i've step, and they are holding back with the idea of making haste slowly.
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womanhood of today there is little doubt that some mighty soldiers would go marching into battle wearing boomers, knickerbockers or skirts, as their varied inclinations prompted. ~
 This may seem far-fetched, but mum Der of young women in Hoboken could speak more fully on the subject. Ho- boken is seldom treated seriously. Any thing or anyone that has Hoboken for it's origin is regarded as a fair target for satire and humor. But for all that Ho- boken has the only regularly organized naval company composed of women in the country.
 Ever since the possibility of war the young women who belong to this com pany have been in a terrible state of ex- citement. Timidity may be at the bot tom of it, in the case of a few, but to the credit of the organization it can be said that there have been no withdrawals In fact, there has been a regular increase in the membership, which now amounts to sixty-all valiant-hearted, patriotic, strong bodied young women, who can shoot off a gun without shutting their eyes and climb a rope ladder with the agility and steadiness of @ genuine sea- dog.
 The organization is called the Young Lady Naval Guards. It has motto, and a fine one, too, namely, Honor the Stars and Stripes To protect the flag from
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cal instruments, bandages and ointments, so that If necessity should demand it she could either cut off an arnnso or bandage saber cut in no time. Up to date she has not had chance to display her medical skill. ssH
 Lillian Phillips, an English girl by birth, but an American by choice, is the paymaster. She is known as the great est jingo and the hardest worker in the Guards. She collects the dues of 50 cents a month from each of the members and attends to all of the disbursements. She never allows any of the navy girls to get into arrears. She is so enthusiastic that three of her sisters contracted the war spirit and joined the Guards. The youngest, Miss Daisy Phillips, has just passed her 18th birthday and she is the official messenger of the company.
 Patriotism Runs High.
 There is no limit to the patriotism of the paymaster. Here is what she said shortly after the organization of the Guards, and she says it is as true now as it was then:
 This country is good enough for any, body, and think mora of the American flag than do of my life. I'd be ready to die any time fighting for the red, white and blue. My mother to tease me, sings God Save the Queen. Then we four girls begin singing America I have my
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Crocker had branding iron in his hand and he was about to apply it to the flank of the believing calf. At him rushed Miller and grabbed him roughly by the stand for the language which the cattle men hear more than any other on the range.) You don't know how to use a brand. I'll show you
 Around swung the big fist of the ranch manager, catching Miller full in the face. Miller responded with kick, and then they clinched and rolled around in the ruck of the corral, upsetting branding furnaces, stampeding the stock and in- terrupting proceedings generally. But Crocker was mostly on top and when the fight was over the millionaire cattle own CT was very gory and unhandsome in- deed. Miller wiped the blood from. his face. The employe proceeded to tell him all the details of the work on the ranch including some that had to be attended to al once.
 Why, what's the matter with you do- ing it?' said Miller.
 Well. I supposed after what's hap pened I'd have to pull my freight
 Bah, Don't make - fool of your self because I made a - fool of myself. You go ahead and attend to your work And the rodeo went on in compara tive peace and harmony"
 That tells the story of Miller. He works eighteen hours every day, seven days in the week. His cowboys have fine saddles and costly equipments, but he wears the cheapest to be found. Yet his landed possessions are greater than those Of any other six men in the country. But he is happy in his way.
 An Ex-Barber King.
 Anthony Nicholas Brady is newcomer in the world of kingdoms. He is known as the gas king, but he is also entitled to the sou briquet the trolley king, the electric king and the contractor king. He was accidentally born in France in 1S43, because his parents refugeed there from Ireland. When he was q baby they came to this country and settled in Troy. When he was a small boy he got a job as cashier in the barber shop of the De- lavan house in Albany and when he had saved enough he bought a tea store. He gave away chinaware and was one of the first to attract custom in that way. Soon he had two stores and in a~short time a half dozen. When he had monopolized the trade he turned contractor. He re- paved Albany with granite from end to end and laid all kinds of pipes. Then he bought surface roads. Within the last few years these have been turned into trolley roads, and he owns everything of | the kind in Troy and Albany.
 Then he came to New York. He, with few other millionaires, owns the troll ley system of Providence, R. l.; also all l the roads of Brooklyn and some of the
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BIDS WANTED

To Property Owners: E The committee on location for the aud- itorium invite propositions to be handed in by noon of Tuesday, February 4.
 The lot must be at least 100x140 feet and between Fifth and D avenues and Twenty-third and Seventeenth streets. owner will be required to furnish ab- stract showing perfect title to the prop erty.
 Propositions for a ten-year lease and for sale are desired, and the following form of proposition is suggested, viz:
 I hereby propose to sell to the Audi torium company (here describe loD at and for the sum of $@, to be paid in cash, or will take $@, payable $- cash, the balance in one, two three, four and five years. with legal interest on de- ferred payments.
 I further propose to lease the same lot as described above for ten years at and for $- per annum, payable monthly.
 J. A. VANHOOSE, Chairman.
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said of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the pre- mier railroad power of the country. John D. Rockefeller was a newsboy once and John W. Mackay made a famous strike in the early California mining days. Andrew Carnegie worked up from a drudge in Pittsburg foundry to his present position. J. Pierpont Morgan in herited some of his wealth, but has made vast sums by the handling of European moneys In American securities and the doctoring of sick corporations. The un- happy stockholder has always been his target. .sf m
 Mrs. Richard King. the land queen, owns the better part of three immense counties in Texas. She has a single ranch of 1.250000 acres. and the front door of her house is thirteen miles from her front gate. Her ahusband left her the property. It is fenced with barbed wire from end to end and 100000 cattle graze in it. It is called the Santa Ger trudis ranch. The bay of Corpus Christi bounds -one end of it for forty miles. Mrs King is 60 years old and gives lib- eraffy to charity.
 - DAVID FERGUSON.
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UNCLE SAM'S ROYAL FAMILY Many Kings, and All of Great
 Power, Too. OCCUPY TRADERS THRONES Some of Them Have Strange Histories and Romantic Careers-Rise of Sausage
 Pedder.

This is an era of kings. Not of the empty-headed, weak-kneed, extravagan- ga type which desecrates some of the thrones of Europe, but of the sterling kind which rules in the world of indus try.
 This country is supposed to have no kings, and it has none in the European sense. But of late years each branch of commerce has developed some extraordi- nary character who has risen so far above all others, rivals and competitors, that he is universally acknowledged to be the king. To be the king of his own branch of industry Is the ambition of numberless men. Some of them, in try ing to achieve it, wreck mind, body and fortune, but these mishaps never dlsmay the others, and the race goes merrily on.
 Who are the kings of today? A glance at this list tells the story, and gives a good idea of the composition of Uncle Sams royal family;
 Theodore A. Havemeyer sugar king, $60 000 000
 Anthony N. Brady, gas king, $3O, O,OOO,- 0O0
 Philip D. Armour beef king, $40, ,000, ,000 Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad king, $10O,000 ,000.
 John w. Mackay, silver king $SO OOO,- GOO.
 Andrew Carnegie, steel king, s60, 900, ,000
 J. Pierpont Morgan, money king, $5O- 00O,000.
 John D. Rockefeller, oil king, $lS0, ,OOO.- GOO.
 Henry Miller, cattle king. 35,OOO,OOo.
 w. S. Stratton, gold king, $30 000 O00
 Mrs Richard King, land queen. $25.- 900. O00
 This list, of course, does not cover all Of the kings and queens but 1t includes
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your child

You note the difference in children. Some have nearly every ailment, even with the best of care. Others far more exposed pass through unharmed. Weak children will have continuous colds in winter, poor digestion in summer. They are with out power to resist disease, they have no reserve strength. Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil, with hypo- phosphites, is cod-liver oil partly digested and adapted to the weaker digestions of children.
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the great leaders and the most august powers. And the powers of these men are not small It is the power of money, and the kings and queens of Europe have had to bow their naughty heads in acknowledgement of Its potent influence more than once. The Rothschlds could tell some interesting stories, if they would, about that. Even Bismarck, the man of iron, in the days of his strongest power, had to knuckle down when one of the Rothschilds threatened to break ev- cry bank in Berlin unless he relinquished a cherished plan. Bismarck preserved the financial integrity of the empire by doing as he was bid. So the power of money is, in times of emergency, greater than the power of the kings.
 With three exceptions, the commercial kings above named created their own kingdoms.
 In one or two instances bare-faeed, bald-headed luck aided in the building of the fortresses of wealth. But in the ma jorty of cases tireess work and cease less industry were the potent factors. These men are living illustrations of the stories told in Sunday school books and in literature prepared for good little boys.
 An Ex-Sausage Peddler
 Take the case of Henry Miller the cat tie king, for instance. Very little is known of him except on the Pacific slope. East of the Mississippi few have ever heard of him. Yet he owns 22,0 000 square miles of grazing land, and hogs and cat tie by the tens of thousands. How much he is worth it is hard to say. He never has much ready money. As fast as mon- ey comes in he buys more land and more cattle to graze in it. Land and cattle are a mania with him. He buys more land to raise more cattle, and he raises more cattle to buy more land.
 Forty years ago he was a sausage ped dler. Miller is not exactly fitting char acter for a Sunday school story. He swears prodigiously, fights all the time, and some of his money-making methods are open to question. But the hundreds of rough men in his employ have a sort of admiration for him. A visitor to one of the Miller ranches gives this explana- tion of it:
 "The cowboys were yelling, and the smoking brands were soaring the hair from the Hanks of the Miller stock, and there was all the noise and dirt and heat and evil smell of branding rodeo. Ac- tive among the men, swearing more than any of them and dirtier than most, was a thick-set chap whose oaths came with a strong German accent. This was Hen ry Miller, owner of all the cattle and all the land in sight and a hundred times more land.
 Another working, sweating swearing man was Crocker. manager of the ranch.
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girl has married she resigned, and there in the Guards. as
 and commander of the Hoboken Naval lie, and Capt. J. Wells Martin of the na- val cadets instruct them at the drills, and they are about the only men who are ever present at the interesting exer- cises.
 Captain of the Guards.
 A New York girl, Miss Margaret Shot ter, is captain of the Guards. Her mi form is the pride of the sailor girls, be- cause it has six gold stripes and six gold stars The uniform of the regulars is a very pretty sailor suit, including blue skirt with three bands of white braid at the bottom, a regular sailor blouse with white flannel yoke bearing miniature flag, and a rough sailor hat similar to that worn by the sailors in the navy The band of the hat bears the letters "Y. L. N. e. The uniform of the officers differ from that of the rank and file. h. stead iof a blouse, the officers wear a tight fitting coat trimmed with gold braid and bearing the usual emblems denoting the rank of the wearer. Thls is topped off with pretty cap.
 The Surgeon.
 The lst of officers is complete. The Guards have a surgeon in Miss Carrie Smith, tall handsome young girl, who is medical graduate and regular M. D. At the drills she always appears with a business-like satchel, filled with surgi-
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cable roads of New York. He went into the gas lighting business in Albany long ago and made a practical study of the business. This enabled him later on to put through his famous deal in Chicago Gas. to the discontinue of the Standard Oil company
 Well-Known King.
 Little need be said of Theodore A HaVemeyer, the sugar king. He inherit ed some of his wealth, and the sugar trust, which he formed, has multiplied it several times. He is a man of fashion and his wife is one of the guiding spirits Of New York swelldom.
 He Is not interesting, but w. s. Strat- ton, the gold king, is. Stratton owns the famous Independence mine at Cripple Creek. Baldheaded luck made him a mill Honaire. Work had nothing to do with 1t. Stratton, up to six years ago, was a carpenter in Jeffersonville, Ind. When ever he worked few days he would go on jamboree until his last cent was spent. He was quiet man and made no enemies, but made no friends to speak or. The man who worked six days a week and tried to save something he re- garded as a fool
 Stratton took a long walk once and landed in Denver That was about four years ago. when Cripple Creek first at tracted attention. Then he took another walk to Cripple Creek. Like every one else. he staked claim, but he was too lazy to work it. He could have earned good pay as carpenter, but he never fancied work. Sometimes he would stroll over to his claim and shovel up the dirt for an hour or two.
 He got in arrears at his boarding house and was put out. Miners in the adjoin- ing claim to his own took pity on him and allowed him to live in their shanty. Sometimes he worked for them and they paid him enough to hire 0 man to dig his claim. He worked the latter in a desultory way until he got down to a depth of 40 feet. One day he hit some thing. It was ledge of gold. Men have been working that ledge every day since then and the deeper they get the more of it they find. They took out so much gold that Stratton said he would dock the boss if he allowed more than $4000 worth of gold to be taken out in day. It only costs Stratton 4 cents for every dollars worth of gold he takes out. He has been offered $10.000,000 for the mines and he laughed at the people who made the offer.
 Stratton lives quietly, but gives away money to those he likes in liberal style. He is little man, feet inches in height and weighs about 130 pounds.
 Everyone knows about Philip D. Ar mour. the beef king, and the same can he
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insult and injury is the one great object tof the guards. It has several smaller Iaims, but as it is partly a secret organi- szation these are not for public informa- ition.
 Membership Qualifications.
 The Guards are only a trfie more than a year old. Any respectable girl be- tween the ages of 12 and 25 years is eligi- ble for membership. providing she takes the oath of an organization, which re- quires her to swear that she will uphold the flag even at the risk of her life. It can be seen from this that the young women are heavily charged with patriot ism and that if war broke out they would have to fight the enemy or violate the oath.
 None of the girls. claim to be able to manipulate a mqdern man-o'-war. but they do claim to know something about navy regulations and discipline, for they have studied these matters most assidu- ously since the, organization of the Guard, and they have a drlll every Wednesday night in the Odd Fellows hall in Hoboken.
 The only enemy they have, go far en- countered is matrimony. EEeE1 time 2
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GIRLS FOR HE NAVY
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New York. Jan. 31.-The darkness of the war clouds which have been lowering over all the great nations for the past month or so has completely showed the new woman into the background, and no one has seemed to thinksit of sufficient importance to ask what that wonderful creature would do in event of hostilities.
 Since the days of the wicked but mar tial Queen of Babylon many women have dotted the pages of wars history. and if the opportunity were given the athletic
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Cara of Blowers.

Here is new method for preserving plants which is most efficacious. Dis solve one part salicylic acid in sixty parts of alcohol, heat the solution ap to boiling point in an evaporating vessel and draw the plants slowly through it. Shake them to get rid of any superfiuous moisture, and then dry them between sheets of plotting paper under pressure in the ordinary manner. Too prolonged immersion discolors violet flowers. and in all cases the plotting paper must be frequently renewed.
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The Newest Belts.

It is confidently expected that belts will be largely in vogue again next spring. They will not be so broad as formerly. from 21a to inches. Various handsome things have appeared; paillettes woven upon India rubber belts, and also beads and paillettes. These belts are of nice effect in multi-colors. A new patent India rubber band, used as belts, is also shown. It is pointed both in front and behind, and has a buckle at both places.
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 Why?
 Simply because we absolutely sell Mo- To-Bac under a guarantee to cure, and at a price within the reach of all. Your own druggist guarantees it, so you don't have to take our word Over 10000 druggists sell and guaran- tee No-To-Bac; over 100000 boxes sold; over 100000 cures; over 10000 testimon- ial letters with requests to publish. Here are few:
 Minister Saved After Thirty Years.
 Tyrone, Ark, Sept. Is, 1895. Gentlemen: I must say that for thirty ore years have been a perfect slave to tobacco, and can safely say, as minister of the gospel, that two boxes of No-To-Bac have completely cured me of any desire for the poisonous weed, so that I feel like a man once more in life. Yours truly REV. J. A. PRESTON.
 Driven Out of Texas
 Cloverdale, Ind, Aug 10, 1895. Gentlemen: One year ago while living in Henrietta, Tex, I became so nervous from the use of tobacco that it was 8 burden to me to keep still in one place any length of time.
 I bought one box of your No-To-Bac and used it according to directions, and gained fifteen pounds in two weeks. It
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 J. E. FRAZIER.
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 Jamestown, N. Y, Sept 25, 1895. Dear Sirs: I have been cured of the use of tobacco by taking No-To-Bac. I never felt better in my life than right now. I am 49 years old and do not know what sickness means now. I used to be sick while using tobacco and had spells fo heart failure, but it is all gone, thanks to No-To-Bac. Very truly yours,
 JAMES c. BATEMAN.
 Years of Tobacco Eating.
 Galena Kas., July 27, 1895. Gentlemen: A year ago I sent to you for three boxes of No-To-Bac and before two was used all desire for tobacco was gone, and since tobacco has not entered my mouth-and this, after not chewing, but eating it for years. I used over pound week. I can say to all who de- sire to quit tobacco permanently, give No-To-Bac an honest trial and you will
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LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Tonic.

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 For Indigestion, Sick and Nervous Headaches. For Sleeplessness Nervousness and Heart Diseases, take Lemon Elixir. Lades for natural and thorough or ganic regulation, take Lemon Elixir. Dr. Mozleys Lemon Elixir is prepared from the fresh juice of Lemons, com bined with other vegetabl liver tonics and cathartics. 50c and $1 bottles at druggists.
 Prepared only by pr. H. Mozley. Att lanta, Ga. 4a..
 A Prominent Minister Writes. After ten years,of great suffering from Indigestion, with great nervous prostra- tion biliousness, disordered kidneys and constipation, Il have been cured by Dr. Mozley's Demon. Elixir and am now a well man.
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 25 cents at druggists. Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga.
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LOST

A one hundred dollar bill. Will pay the finder $3O. Was lost somewhere near the Kan- sas City round house. Return to State Herald office and get reward. J. T. HOMELESS,
 2-x-3t s2s,s Engineer K. 0.
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