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The morning times., 1896-01-12

cncrvating influence living at the same
time as healthily as possible. The result
was most gratifying. At the end of n few
months blushing no longer made my life
intolerab.e. and after further period it
disappeared. -te ii'r
The morning times., 1896-01-12

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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
Hereditarv Genina.

How rarely is literary genius-or, IN
deed, a very high order of literary tai
ent-reproduced in the second genera
ton! It is rare, indeed, for memorials
of father and son to find themselves
face to face in Westminster Abbey, as
since last week do the memorials of
Thomas and Matthew Arnold. And in
this place Thomas Arnold owes his
place rather to the character and per
sonal influence and the gratitude of the
Rugbein race he reared than to any
thing in him that could be called lit
ernry genius. Thinking over the great
names of English literature, the only
cases that occur to one are the Cole
ridges, the Disraelis and the Lyttong.
and some would add the Mills; and
with the possible exception of Samuel
Taylor and Hartley Coleridge, there
cannot in these cases be much talk of
genius transmitted. In France there
are the cases of the two Crebillons and
OF Dumas pere and Dumas fills; and, if
Edmund de Goncourt's critical insight
is to be depended on, we shall have to
add a Daudet pere and Daudet fls. Fee
Xix Mendelssohn's father used to COM
plain that he never in the worlds re-
gard had an independent existence.
first half of his life he was merely
the son of Moses Mendelssohn, the phil.
osopher, and the second half merely
the father of Felix Mendelssohn, the
composer.--St. James Gazette.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

quire fame and wealth. He acquired
them. TammanE made kim. All that
he has to-da cry shred of reputa.
ton, every square inch of standing in
The eyes of decent men, he owes to Tam.
many.
There is a yellow streak in Cochran.
In the expressive ~vernaeular of the
west, that he ISLANDERS and belittles, she
will not do to tie to-" He is not true.
He accepted ~Tammany's food and cloth
ing, and then bit the hand that fed
him. If asked an opinion of Cochran,
any leader of the famous organization
will give it with ease and freedom. Thew
know him.
His present attitude is IT. keeping with
his nature. He is loud in abuse Of for
mel party associates and friends; he is
hand in glove with Mckinley, Plattand
others whom he once loudly abused.
That side which promises most for
Cochran is the side upon which Cochran
viii always be found. No obligation in
CURED binds him; no faith keeps him
true. No sense of gratitude SWANS his
lightest action. He has n o feeling Of
obligation, no faith and no gratitude.
This is the man who, with an effront,
cry SO brazen that it contains an ele-
ment of lumor, challenged William Jen,
'nings Bryan to a joint debate.-Tam.
many Times.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

A. Migrate Whs Il biting the aan
That Fed Him.


A. Migrate who H Biting the Haha
That Fed Him.
Whatever the faults Of Bourke Cock
ran-and they are many: whatever
virtues-and they are few-no mar can
deny him possession of unlimited nerve.
Perhaps ~galI' would be the better
word. albeit slangy. 1t strikes Tam
many Times that his proposal to enter
joint debate with William j. Bryan,
nominated for president by the greatest
party this country has ever known, was
IS solid a piece of impudence as it has
encountered in many a day. IF all ofthe
natives of County Sligo were as inn
pertinent the remainder Of the world
would be kept busy kicking them until
the breed was worn out.
Cochran came to this couAtry many
years ago--impoverished, bnt with the
instincto of the ~mendicant. What he saw
be asked for. What he got he accepted
with that p~rofusion of thanks for which
the members of the Ragged Legion are
noted. Many men not yet past their
prime remember him as he was IN those
days. As a borrower he was expert
end as a consumer of liquor unsuS-
passed. He would cross the street in q
driving storm and wade through slush
to his knees, to speak to a man with
money. If he had gone in for heraldry,
bis coat of arms would hEve been a bot
crossed with a corkscrew, and
Backsheesh" his motto.
The mans eloquence made him
friends. He became active as a s'work-
err in che lower stratum of politics.
subsequently he was adopted by Tam
many. He said that he was a democrat,
and that organization, which stands
ready always to aid struggling talent,
took him up. 1t advanced him step by
step, Its members aided him, individ.
nally and collectively. It sent him TO
national conventions and to congress.
IT afforded him every opportunity to &C.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

on eastward 10 Hogarth for the meet
ing, rather than risk having to wait at
WILLIAMSON. The order was prompt
~ given, for express trains are things
which must be humored by tain dis
patchers. This, of course, made it per
emptory to stop COZ at Hogarth and give
her a revised order in conformity with
that now held by the conductor of No.
1. It was easy enough. All that Yves
needed was to call up the operator at
Hogarth and tell him to display his red
signal and stop the approaching freight
train. Kenneth understood what was
to follow. You cannot tramp over a
transcontinental line for a Month with
out acquiring a thorough Knowledge of
its Geographic secrets, If You be an
operator. Kenneth was acquainted
with the significance of the various
numeral signals which the ~dispatchers
used SO as to economic on time-"3s,'s
was the warning to make ready to re-
ceiye a train order, I'll" meant for the
operator to repeat what he had re-
ceiyed and so on. And so when the
anxious dispatcher called upon the boy
at Hogarth and said ss36 No. 6O2." the
shabby man of the Morse was
that what was wanted was the display
of the red signal and the consequent
holding of COZ for revised orders. But,
to his surprise, the boy did not make
the customary response, "37 No. 602,"
which would be the short way of say
ing: Il have hung out my red signal
and viii hold 602 for oredrs.n Instead,
he scratched his head in a puzzled way
aud fer a moment telegraphed back
to nan who had directed him:
flows that? What do you mean P'
1t is very likely that the dispatcher
had an attack of vertigo at that mo.
ment that he realized that a fast freight
train and a heavy passenger train were
approaching one another on the curv-
ing, twisting track, each going at high
est speed, and each seeking to make
q different station for passing, and
when he realized at the same time that
a lout of a student did not understand
what was wanted of him. P~ainstaking-
ly and slowly the dispatcher licked
back: II mean to put out y-o-u-r
r-e-d lantern for No. 6-O-2."
Slowly it came, indeed, but if the tick
ing was slow, the beating of the heart
of the dispatcher must have been fast
enough.
The boys face lighted up. In a tangle
of enthusiasm he ratified off this an
swer, jumbling his words together in a
way unintelligible to any but a wait
inU ears aAT1r;0b4 Txu;lJn,,4;4 o,,4 y
With a smile at the change Of events
which had arranged it so that No. COZ
would stop after all and give him 1
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

CulorAd0's Senator Makes an Earnarf A.
peal for BEmntnilsm.

cplorAdO,s Senator Makes an Earnest Az
peal for Bfmntniism
Senator Henry ii. Teller. a. tie even.
ing of August 81, delivered Before the
Bryan and sevan club 8 Colorado
Springs the only politicalaadress be
viii make in Colorado during the pres
ent campaign. His reception was rather
unique from the fact that Colorado
Springs is the center Of what Mckinley
sentiment there is in that sfate. Ths
silver men call The city Little London,
partly because of the English popuIa.
ton there and also because 1T the Nc
Kinley spirit. This in q measure ac.
counts for the monster demonstration
accorded Senator TeHer.by loyal silver
ties of the city.
The supreme court and income tax
issues raised by the Chicago platform
were handled by the speaker in bis
usual dry, a-rgumentative style. aaf he
spoke in tones Of contempt OF the l1di-
annapolis convention, charaeterizing it
as a stool-pigeon to catch votes that
might otherwise 90 to BRYAN -ather
than to Mckinley. Senator Teller ig.
nored the Mckinley letter of acceptance
entirely. He eulogized Bryan, and de-
clared that he was the equal Of any
presidential candidate nominated in
this country during the last 40 years.
Blaine not excepted.
I'VE must do our duty Ia Dc financial
question" said Mr.. Teller, for if we
settle it here we will settle it through
out the world. If we could strip this
question of ~partisanship Won would find
a great majority of this coiintryin favor
OF bimetallism. The free coinage of
both metals is no new theory. 1t was a
success and it was not a failure. We
propose no doubtful experiment. We
ask that we return to the prosperous
times prior to 1873.
II am asked what country has
pered OH the double standard. Take
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

station listening to the clamor Of ths
dispatcher misunderstanding to orders
reports and other minutae of ru ming
traina BY telegraph. In the course d
time he learned q thing which caused
him to curse his luck and look upon
himself as outraged, for by attend.
Ing the racket Of the dispatcher's lima
he found that No. 1, the passenger train,
wa late, and instead Of meeting her al
Rosalie, the station east of Hogarth.
where the tramp operator was waiting.
6o2, the fast freight, had been given
PERMISSION 70 go as far as Williamson.
the station next west Of Hogarth, for
the meeting. No. 1 had been warned in
due time ak The change.
The fast freight had been ont Of
a0salie ten minutes and was fast ap-
preceding Hogarth when Kenneth
heard the mai At Humboldt telling the
disp@tcheE ihat No. 1, having made Us
ss minutes q her tlne and being now
fAt q minutes late, deaiEed 70 proceed
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

chance to mount an end sill or climb
under a car, Kenneth rose and walked
up the platform. TWAS not a long plat
form, for the town was small, but BY
the time he had reached the end he saw
the light of No. 602 swinging into the
only five miles of straight track on the
road, and he realized that in a few min
utes, obeying the command of the red
lantern on the target, she would stop
and give him a chance to get on board.
He turned to look back at the signal
light and his face took on a stony mask
Of dismay. He was to be disappointed
again. The light was not shining.
Doubtless the order had again been
changed. The language he used was
inelegant and outspoken. The train
drew nearer. He could hear the rapid
sound of the locomotives exhaust and
there was no hope of her stopping.
Suddenly a fearful thought come I'd
him. He remembered he had not seen
the boy put out the lamp at all. What
if
He rushed back to the window like d
fury. Where's your red signal for
this train?" he shrieked. "Stop this
train! Stop herl The dispatcher has
orders for herr"
Very likely the boy would have told
the ragged and dirty tramp to mind his
own business, but for that allusion to
the dispatcher. Heaven permitted h
fool to have a thought at the right time.
and in an expostulating, mumbling way
he said: mo, he amt. He told me to
put the light out, and I've been Ave
minutes tryin' to put it out. Had to
take 1T apart afore 1 could blow it out.
and now it smokes like all the"
There was no time for him to COM
plete his smile, for Kenneth was
through the window now and had the
red Office flag in his hand. He seized
the hall lamp from the telegraph table.
and with the flag folded about the
chimney to give the crimson hue Of
danger he rushed to the platform, the
i~mprovised red signal sending its dim
message of warning weakly down the
track toward the laundering engine Of
No. 602, now scarcely SO yards away.
Weakly, but it answered its purpose.
for, although the trains momentum
carried it far past the Office, she came
In response to that well-known
signal. 'sThe kids red light blew out
and I had to help him fake one up
said Kenneth to the conductor, and
then he sat down to take the order.
pushing the boy aside as though he
we're not to be considered-ChiCago
Record
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

France. She maintains her 5000. OOO,-
600 of silver with $9OO,0OO,0oO Of gold.
Germany was pre-eminently prosperous
under a silver standard alone from 1859
to 1873, when she abandoned silver and
took to a gold standard. India went to
a silver basis and has made more prog
ress since 1885 than she did in TIE pre-
vious 500 years. President Diaz and his
counselcrs say: We do not want to see
the United States go to free coinage,
because we could not advance as we are
cling now
Il don't care who it is that says that
the coinage of silver will drive ont the
gold. We are told that Jefferson stopped
the coinage of silver dollars because of
the shrinkage of the currency. That is
true, because they were being exported.
But silver half dollars were coined and
were legal tender. Not one man in a
thousand knew that silver had been de-
11onetized two years after the act of
1873. No American citizen knew of it.
That act was forced and promulgated
by an enemy Of the human race.
(Cheers) l think we all agree that it
was an unfortunate act. Think of it,
20 years of constantly falling prices.
sour 100000 people ought to be
the happiest people on earth. 1 find
them Poyerty-stricken. find one-third
without means of supporting them
selves. I tell you, after 20 years Of
thought and study, our trouble arises
from a deficient monetary system. I
find shat every other nation that has
abandoned this standard is in the same
condition of poverty. In 1886 a CON
mission was appointed in England to
fnd what was the matter with her stag
rated trade.
They say, il you go to free coinage
you will get a 50-cent dollar. The Mex
icaa dollar is not q 50-cent dollar. tits
a Ion-cent dollar. When the Mexican,
dollar reaches the United States ii il
worth but so cents, because it IS simply
silver bellion. IF you giye all the forms
of money-the greenback, silver. goid
d~ollars--all the same functions they
will remain side by side, and one willno
depreciate until all do. hut / have said
enough on that Do not misunderstood
me. Ido not want to GO to a silver basis
alone, but If we have "a go to one metal,
then let it be silver" (Ches-a.)
GOV. Altgeld WANTS to know how long
would have had to wait for indie
p~endence if we had depended upon Eng
consent to it. This is a problem
that Mr.. Mckinley should work out
and answer in one Of his speeches. The
sentiment IN favor Of American inde-
pendence il England was fully as
as that in favor OF b~imetail;sm
aow-St Louis Republic.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

Farmer, manufacturer, miner, wage,
earner-all feel the blighsing effects
Of falling prices. In the face of fall.
ing prices they cannot prosper, and the
election of Mckinley means a further
and continued fall in prices. Rising
prices can alone bring to them gen,
eral and lasting prosperity, and Mr.,
Bryan's election NEAR higher prices,
In short, it is Mckinley and Adversely,
Bryan and Prosperity. The great body
OF American voters cannot hesitate long
over the choice.-The American. :
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
Enemies Ever Aftervvard.

Genevieye-Oh. Beatrice, did Charlie
Chillingworth propose to you this.morn-
ing2
Beatrice (blushing)-Why, whatever
can have made you ask that question
9e-yes, he proposed and we're TO be
married in a year, if papa will give his
consent.
GeneyieVe-There, lowe Charlie a box
OF candy! He bet me that you'd jump
at him if he asked you, and I gave you
credit for having more sense.-CIeve-
land Leader.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

WHY suffer with Constipation, Indiges-
ton and Sick Headaches when DR.. Carl
stedt's Great German Liver Medicines will
cure you. They do not weaken the organs
on which they act but regulate the whole
system, thereby bringing relief to the suf-
ferer. Syrup 80 cts. and 81 per bottle.
Powder % cts. Every bottle guaranteed or
money refunded. For sale by druggists.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
A singular Form Of Monomanla.

There is a class of people, rational enough
la other respects, who are certainly mono
maniacs in dosing themselves. They are
constantly trying experiments upon their
stomachs, their bowels, their livers aud
their kidneys with trashy nostrums. When
these organs are really out Of order, if they
would only use Hostetter's s omach Bitters,
they would, if not hopelessly insane, per-
ueive its superiority.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
Caught It Later.

did you miss the train when YOU
took your wife to the depot this morn
ing, Burky? 1
Yes, but you can bet I caught IL
when I got home."-Detroit Free Press
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
All About Texas.

Address D. j. Price, A. G. P. Al. sc. N.
r. r., Palestine, Texas, sending seven cents
postage, for a 200 page handsomely illus
trated book telling all about Texas. Texas
is now attracting a great number of settlers
by reason of cheap lands and mild climate.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

"WHY, Mr.. Portly, you are all done up.
What's the matterln 'tBicvcle.D teBut
you don't ride a wheel" 'sNo, but the
other fellow does. n-Fliegende Blaetter.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline's.
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 50 trial bottle.
q treatise. DR. KLINE. 933 Arch st. Phila Pa.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
Mood'e pile cure an Liver ms g GEMS.

ONLY the man who gives hoping for moth
lag again, who gives freely, without calcula-
lion, out of the tUllness of his heart-can
lind his love returned to him. - &. d.
Maurice.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

-Loeusts are mentioned as on Of the
plaques Of Egypt, brought upon the
land Of the Pharaohs by Moses ans
Aaron In 1891 b. G
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

KIND words prevent a good deal Of that
perverseness which rough and imperious
usage often produces in generous minds
Locke.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

IF we knew what our enemies have sui.
fered, our epmity would often die a sudden
death.-Ram's Horn.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

ALMOST all old women wear their dresses
too short.-Atchison Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

PIso's Cure for Consumption has saved
Hopkins Place, Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 2, i94
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

WHEN you loaf, remember the rights Of
busy people.-Atchison Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

IN the race of life it isn't the fast men
WHO come out ahead.-Texas Sitter.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07

Halls Catarrla Cure
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
snver.s Good Work h marioo.

Out Of a lot of trash brought outin an
interview with the Mexican minister
about silver money, 50-certdollars, etc.
all fixed up by a republican interviewer
to help the unholy gold cause, one start.
ling truth was told. He says blythe use
Of silver money outside competition has
teen dispensed with and Mexico is build.
ing up Industries of her own. Under a
gold standard the industries of the
United States are being pulled down, in
stead of being built up.-Springfeld
(Ill.) Register.
We call attention to the fact that "the
silver craze continues to die out-in
the organs of the money power.-At
lenta Consultation.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-07
a TRAMP OPERATOR.
HERE mere proha.

bly, 700 passengers
on No. 1. Thatwas
her fair average,
and Conductor
Hubbard ~afterward
said he thought
that on the night
Of September 4 she
had carried her full
quota. If he had
realized what was
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16
HOMES AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

The strongest influence for good,
both for citizen and country, is the
home. It is around the hearthstOne of
the home that the virtues dwell. Y ears
ago the law said, man who could not
pay his debts should be sent to prison,
such fate as overlook the father of
"Little Dorrit,'' portrayed by Charles
Dickens. By thus confining him they
deprived him of an opportunity to
earn enough to pay his creditors; and
if he had not friends who could help
him he was doomed to long confine-
ment. There was another law which
has now been erased from the statute
books, which, if the debtor were me-
chanic, allowed the creditor to take
his tools, thereby depriving him of the
means of gaining livelihood at his
trade, and as effectually stopping his
chance of paying the debt as the
former method of imprisonment had
done. Since these times have changed,
it has been found that debts are more
readily paid than ever before, and that
the homes have Increased with the
prosperity brought about thereby.
After while the law exempted the
homestead from sale for debt, thereby
keeping the roof over the family and
preserving the home and it's influence
The law should go still further and
exempt the homestead valued at from
two to three thousand dollars from
taxation of all kinds. Think of the
labor of the thousands it has taken tC
build up these homes of today, under
these adverse circumstances. AnC
then of the future of the millions who
are going forward over field and fores
and mountain, with freedom to choose
out and build for themselves home
which, should the husband and fathel
die, may still be roof over the womel
and children and the children's chill
! dren, LA ELEvE.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-16

by telling him that he could get good
education elsewhere, whereupon he
said: "Thats not what's the matter;
| don't know the way hOmen' He was
a little more unsophisticated than l
was, and it gave me more confidence
in myself.
In few days we went into camp.
1t was an oppressively hot day, and,
about the time the tents were up, rain
began to fall in torrents; SO the plebes
in company A were hurried into one
tent, with their blankets and other
baggage. The cadets of that day will
remember the peculiar Odor which
came from our blankets in damp
weather. Whew. l can almost smell
it now. Over in Wisconsin some en-
terprising man has opened skunk
farm. and | am sure that | would just
as soon reside in the midst thereof as
to be shut up in tent, on rainy day,
with a number of blankets such as
were issued to the cadets in the long
ago. The camp was known as Camp
Porter, in honor of the Secretary OF
War. FitZ John Porter was the SEN
ior cadet captain, and it was his duty
to march the battalion to and from the
mess hall. It was several weeks before
learned that he was not the Secretary
of War. / was too proud to confess
my ignorance by asking for informa-
ton, and so blundered along ''learning
the ropes by experience.
soon learned the position of sol
dier, and terminated my connection
with the academy as captain OF the
same company that l Joined as dis
heartened and disgusted plebe.-Gen
r. w. Johnson in Northwest Naga
zine.