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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
Wonderful Results from Pink Pills.
Mrs. John roolev Relates = Remarkable
Story.
Hom The Dsmoen :, C~harleUoir, Mieh.

Hom the Demoer, :, Charlcuoix, Mich.
The Democrat has had its attention called
20 q remarkable cure, due to the use Of DR..
Williams Pink Pills, and the following
statement, made to a reporter of this paper,
VIII be read with interest by all similarly
afflicted. Mr.. John Tooley, cf Dwight, ID
this county, is the lady benefited BY the
medicine named, and she makes the follow
ing statement:
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
COUNTY OF CHARLEvoIx, 80
IN the year 1881 l was q great sufferer
from extreme which finally
developed into an aggravated attack of ST.
N1tus' dance. My health was very Door and
l suffered terribly for six months, constant
" growing worse. Finally / left home and
went to my relatives in Canada for a visit,
and my people never expected 1 would re-
turn alive. In Canada I was induced to trv
Oh. Williams Pink Pills, and the resultwas
truly marvellous. When I began taking
mem l weighed but ninety-six pounds, and
IN nine weeks time, during which I took
four boxes OF the medicine, I gained so that
weighed L5 pounds, and the st. Vitus'
dance and all nervousness disappeared. I
returned home In nine weeks, completely
cured and in the best of health, and have
continued so to this day. Previous I'd falF.
ing the Pink Pills I had been attended by
several physicians, but with no good re-
suits. lowe my life to Pink Pills, and have
earnestly recommended them TO all nv
4AAShuel dAO hy mO6nSr anu GQrS6 Dr0GherS
have taken them with good results, INV
mother for heart trouble. 1 will be glad to
answer any and all enquiries as to what
Pink Pills have done for me.n
(Signed.)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
End day Of July, 1886.
Mrs. Tooley is now the picture Of health,
and the Democrat reporter could hardly
realize that she was at one time so near to
death. But her testimony is unassailable,
and she is very Earnest in her desire to
spread the good news to other sufferers.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in q
condensed form, all the elements necessary
to give new life and richness to the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are
also q specific for troubles peculiar to
females, such as suppressions, irregularities
and all forms of weakness. They build up
the blood, and restore the glow of health 30
pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect
a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork or excuses of
whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in
boxes (never in loose bulk at SO cents a
box or six boxes for $3.50, and may be had
nt all druggists, or direct by mail from
Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenec-
tady. N. Y.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
FASHION NOTES.
A Costume Made Of Velvet and Br0rads
Stylish Dressing sacque.

n Costume Made OF velvet and Br0oad0
Stylish Dressing saoque.
A costume that has been greatly adj
mired and has been extensively copied
is made of velvet and brocade. The
skirt is of velvet, and is cut after the
rather contracted fashion of the new
style fye-gored skirts. It is entirely
plain and just comfortable walking
length. The fullness is gathered into
the back, and there are a few small
gathers at the sides. The waist is Of
striped brocade. 1t has a full front and
French back, and there are Eton-jacket
fronts of the velvet with deliberately en-
broidered edges. The sleeves are in
REFORMATION shape, but the fullnes is
drawn in by a fancy buckle and bow of
fancy ribbon. The collar is Of plain
velvet, and a wide plat of velvet extends
from collar to waist line, and disap-
pears under a belt. The hat worn with
this dress is of black fancy braid. It
is faced with shirred lace and trimmed
with fans and ruchings of lace and vel
vet and q cluster of ostrich tips.
Every lady has occasion for stylish
and dainty dressing saclues. An at
tractive model is made with a full, long
basque, back and fronts extending from
the shoulder seams straight down. The
space between these fronts is Allied in
with a shirred vest made with alternate
strips of lace insertion and muslin. The
sides of the fronts are trimmed with
insertion, and the edges are finished
with a very narrow lace; the sleeves are
made of alternate strips of muslin and
lace, and a fall of lace over the wrists
is headed by ribbons with bows.
With the present fashionable sleeves
long gloves are worn. The most APP
proved gloves are quite plain, and either
in the buttoned wrist or the all-of-the-
way buttoned, as one may fancy. Elab-
orate1y embroidered or very heavily
stitched gloves are not so much favored
by the best trade as the severely plain
styles.
A stylish bonnet is made of closely
puffed chiffon, over a frame covered
with fine jet beads. The brim is COW
cred with very closely gathered ro-
settles of the chiffon, with a tiny rhine
stone buckle in the middle of each. A
thick cluster of bird-of-paradise feath-
ers, with fans of the chiffon, are the
trimming.
A novelty garden hat is made of
shirred null, and trimmed with
loops aud puffs of the fabric and
sprays of white and purple Ii
lac, with a border of violets
below the edge of the brim at the back.
Princesse dresses are very handsome
when made of appropriate materials,
and these should always have consist
ency enough to stay in place and not
draw in the seams.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
GREED OF THE LATE SHAH.
His Aversion for Spending Money Him
dered Progress in His Realm.

His Aversion for Spending Money Him
dered Progress in His Realm.
The greatest defect of the shah was
his Rvarice, which was immense and
unsuitable; and although this is a fault
common among oriental despots, who
feel that their power can only be made
secure from attack by the command of
a full treasury, yet it injured and often
ruined his schemes for the development
of his country. If he had been con-
tent to spend some portion of his boards
on public improvements, on the repair
of ancient reservoirs and water courses,
and the construction of roads and
bridges, he would have brought under
cultivation tracts of culturable land
which are now desert and would have
largely benefited both his own revenue
and the general trade of the country.
But he could not make up his mind to
spend money, and required every inn
pravement not only to pay for itself
but 50 bring a large contribution ia his.
own treasury.
The concessions which were given
to all corners for manufactures, mines,
bAGAAHoJS 1Oa0SS OuhhSS AdNhOPOAAGS AOA
lotteries, electric lighting, tobacco Gull
ture and other schemes were in no case
assisted by state money, but ali had
to surrender a share of their profits, real
or problematical, to the shah. The
consequence was that the greater num-
Der of these industrial undertakings,
which, in a strange country and among
a suspicious population, required con-
slant support and large ~pecuniary as
sistance from the government, soon
withered and disappeared, and the shah
not only lost his anticipated profit, but
solid and honorable financiers were de-
TERED from adventuring in so unpro-
pitious a country. The ground waa
left free to less honest spectators, who
applied for concessions, not to work
them seriously, but to pass them on for
a consideration to others who might
successfully plant them in the often
credulous markets of Europe. Disaster
followed, the credit of Persia was low
cred, and sound enterprises were seri-
ously injured by the collapse of worth
less Observation-Disclosures Century.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

When the skin has become sunburnt
to excess there is nothing else to be
done but to apply cooling, e%vaporating
lotions, putting them on with an old
linen rag or something very soft, and
changing these cloths as soon as they
get warm. At night a little sweet cream
should be gently applied, or, if this is
not procurable, a simple cold cream can
be used. The juice of a lemon squeezed
into almost mot quite) a quarter of a
pint of milk, or, still better, a little
cream, if that is not considered too
great a luxury, is an excellent thing for
keeping the skin soft and white; it
should be used Immediately after the
face has been washed. If there is any
roughened feeling of the skin after
ward there must be either less lemon
used or more milk or cream added to it.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
..one Durn Fool at Least"

Ridin along through Georgy one long
summer day we suddenly come to
where there was two joinin farms, and
I took particlar notice of two line fences
built SO jam-up clost together till they
didn't make a lane, nor a pig alley, nor
nothin, and says 1 to Uncle Josiah,
says 1:
"What you reckon them fellows mean
by buildin two fences side by side so
clost together?" Says Uncle Josiah to
me, says he:
81 don't know anything for certain
as to this particlar case, Rufus, but for
a common thing and a general rule to
go by, wRensomever you see two line
fences runnin SO clost together, you can
most in generally always gis put your
little notebook and set it down that
there is at least one 6urn fool in the
settlement, and maybe two"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
An Imposslhle Conneraation.

my dear, hat waist doesn't fit you in
the back atall."
ut doesn't matter" said she. "Peo7
pie in front of me can't see it, and I
don't care what they say behind my
back"
The feminine reader is allowed the
choice of two solutions: Either the,
woman who didn't care about the fit of
her waist was fbbing, OF, what is moro
likely, she never Observation-Disclosures
Journal. :
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
seven Feet Under ..rerryfOrma."

That night l turned my horse loose
down into the calf paster, and when I
got up next mornin it come t. pass that
he had turned himself loose down into
an old well, which it want more than
seven feet deep and he didn't fall far
enough to kill him. Naturally of course
by that time anybody could tell what
was the matter with old sorlel. He
vas moon-eyed. He couldn't see un-
der his feet at night and didn't know a
ten-acre calf paster from a hole in the
ground. So there I was, as the man
says in the play, and there was my fine
horse seven feet under "terryforma,"
as Aunt Nancy Newton were UOnt to
say. / called up the hands and we
pitched in to dig him out. We had to
cut a tunnel and open a small mine be-
fore we got him out oncst more on a
leve. with tho broad bosom of the earth.
But dadblame the lick, in the main
time it did look to me like every livin
mortal in the settlement - particlar
them that had swappin stock-had to
Pass right along the big road by our
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

1t has often been said that the best
dressed women almost invariably wear
black and white, and it cannot DO gain
said that these two colors have an in
~dividuality and tone that more glaring
Colors do not possess.-Chicago Record.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

stand the Jerni-
gans had then
mixed up and
married into
t h e Sanders
family till, by
gracious, Y o u
couldn't scarce
~ tell which
war which and
who was who
we took a
trip, we did,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
such "Felonious Bad Luck.n

In regards to the gentleman from
Rocky Creek, there is one thing in par
ticlar which you eau find stickin out
oil along the line so far back as the fam
lily records run. If l never do die till
trouble kills me Twill live a long, long
time, and old Methusalem, which the
good Book tells us about, would be a
mere kid compared to me. And never
was no hand to peddle around and
poster other people with the trials and
-ttTbulations that come to me whilst the
basket is passin round.
But, white people, 1 have had such a
broad streak of feIonious bad luck here
lately till I feel necessary compelled
to speak out the truth if it shames the
devil and unload on the patient and
l~ong,sufferin public. Some folks say
they don't believe in luck, but I do.
And in my own day and generation I
have had more luck of one sort and
another-but mostly good lucR-than
any livin white man, l do reckon. If
it amt luck It looks like luck to me,
and there you are at any rates.
On the very first rattle cut of the
box-which it was then along in the
first days of June if l remember right
Blev ~Scroggins he rid up to the horse
rack at our house one day and hitched
a big fne-lookin sorrel horse, with flax
name and tail. We passed the reglar
compliments in regards to the weather
and the crops, flung in a few scatterin
remarks on the great question of poll
tics, and didn't say marry word about
horse flesh and swappin stock. But
presently when Blew mounted his horse
to return back home I couldn't stand
1t no longer. In the main time, you
understand, I had sized up the big sor-
rel on his general appearments, MS it
were, and took a powerful likin to him.
So / told Blew, in my own f1at-footed
fool way, that if he would rather have
my mare mule Kate, than his horse he
could ride around by the lot land do some
swappin.
"You are traded WITH says Rlev,
and by the time / got out to the lot he
had pulled off his saddle and turned
the horse loose. And then in less time
than it takes me to tell it he had put
his saddle on the mule and rid off to-
wards home in a gallop. About that
time the thought struck me that there
must be somethin dead up the creek in
regards to my fine horse. Blew was so
quick on trigger-so easy to swap with,
and then in such a furious big hurry
TO saddle the mule and hit the big road
for home. But I looked the big sorrel
over and couldn't find a blemish my
where from foretop to fetlock.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

WHEN you have another mani money in
your pocket, is is SO hard "a remember that
It IL not your own.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

SHBE'Was there any particular thing
about the town which struck yOug' He
"Yess a bicycle. s-Yonlrers Statesman.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

nTHH older q man gets,v said the corn-fed
philosopher, "the harder he finds It TO feel
sorry for q woman whose pug dog has
died."-Indianapolis journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

The Friend-Her face is her fortune.
The Bnemy-How interesting! Made
it herself, too. didn't she?-Bay City
Chat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14

IF people hate you, you probably deserve
It.-Atchison Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-14
DOWN ON ROCKY.
The One Ga1ius Statesman Is
Watching tho Fences.
Signs Of Ca Least One Durn Fool In the
Settlement and Maybe Two"-A
Broad Streak of "FelOnious
Bad Luck"

onct upon a time me and my Uncle
Jernigan-which you under.
New-York tribune., 1896-05-10
.IOURNEAY AND BURNHAM.

met by the authorities and were o'1 .. y.st
leave the next day The other correspoau. nan,
away, but In the mean time. at O'Clock u '' ,rs
Ing, Scudamore got out OF his hotei anu va Av
the interior without a passport OF any Nm, Nm %
plicaton made to the British o',.sa,.sa
have the enterprsing war correspondent va .na NJ
but Great Britain refused to interfere, ana -. NJ
Scudamore remained in the interior for nine ~" had
He told me that no, less than 5000 Ar"'e" made
been murdered, While at least 10000 had os.. hfv
homeless. The proba abilities are tnat o,' -, ths
thousand Armenians have been murde'eu IA .nd
Turks. Why. l26 Armenian villages were nl.na
burned down in one day. scudamofe 49,. 49,, prtsa
and says that country lost the chance Of ss',s ,sss
in not forcibly interfering He says az ne tho
American interests have suffered EXTENSIVE. A. tbs
ravases of the Turks in Armenia His view ~ ~ Ar
situation Is that there will be more y. .sodS tSe vars
menia this summer-just as soon A'
weather sets in.
New-York tribune., 1896-05-10
ARMENIAN ATROCITIES NOT REALIZED.

CHARLES JEROME EDWARDS RELATES SOME OF
FRANCIS sCUDAMoRE's EXPERIENCES.
Charles Jerome Edwards. OF the Board OF Eec-
tions returned to brooklyn on Friday night, after
a four months sojourn In Europe with his wife
Mrs Edwards's health. which was exceedingly poor
when she left this country In January was greatly
improved by the journey. When in Rome Mr. and
Mrs. Edwards attended mass In the SStine chapel
the private chapel OF Pope Leo XIII. In the course
OF their travels they visited Jerusalem, Cairo, Con-
stantinople, Athens. Paris. Nice and many other
European cities. While his way from Constan-
tlnople to Athens, Mr. Edwards became acquainted
with Francis Scudamo-s. the war correspondent or
The London Daily News" Mr.. Edwards said yes
erday regarding the Armenian atrocities. concerning
which Mr.. Scudamore had written much:
People In this country do not half realize the
seriousness and extent OF the Armenian atrocities
When Mr. Scudamore arrived at Constantinople he
went with two other war correspondents TO the
Grand Vzier for permission to go into the interior.
The Vlzer was courteous and afYable. but refused
the permission and even went so far as suggesting
the offer OF money to induce the newspaper men to
withdraw. They went to Trebizond without the
Grand Vlzer's permission. but at Trebizond they
New-York tribune., 1896-05-10
TIE NEW WING OPENED.
PUBLIC INSPECTION or THE ADDITION TO THE
HOME FOR CONSERVATIVES.

PUBLIC INSPECTION or THE ADDITION TO THE
HOME FOR CoNsuMPTIvEs.
This afternoon the lately completed wing OF the
Home for Consumptives In Kngston-ave, VIII be
thrown open for public inspection. Tho building
Is a three-story clt-and-stone structure, and
fronts in Kngston-ave 1t has the appearance or a
chapel, and Is OF the most modern architecture.
on the second floor there viii be a well-equipped
childrens ward On the top floor will be the apart
ments Of the nurses. At the opening this after
a large crowd Is expected to attend There
will also be religious services.
The Building Committee In composed OF Wills l..
Ogden. Henry Batterman. James W. Elwell and Will
lam II. Male. The Advisory Board Is Joan Ar
buckle. A. c. Barnes. w. A. A. Brown, Henry Bat
terman. John Claim, James W. Elwell, Aaron Field
W. c. Kellogg. W. II. Male. D. w. McWilllams
George II. Nichols w. L. Ogden. A. II. Porter
A. ]. Pouch. George II. Southard. D. II. Stephens
8. V. White and Robert f. Woodward.
The officers are: President. Mrs. S. V. White
first viee-presdent Mrs Thomas y. Hewitt; second
secretary. Mrs. Henry T. Richardson: correspond
Ing secretary. Mrs Frank Reynolds: treasures.
Mrs. Benjamin Edson
The physicians are Drs. +: Reynolds, Alexander
C. Hove. l. NJ. Fleming. Walter d. Winchell. r.
New-York tribune., 1896-05-10
THE RULE OF THE ROAD.
COMMISSIONER WOODRUFF SUSTAINED IN
HIS ORDER BY BICYCLE RIDERS, WHO
WILL SERVE AS SPECIAL
POLICEMEN.

Park Commissioner Timothy L. Woodruff was
last evening and spoke the subject OF
Consul Potter's latest statement concerning the
recent ordinance promulgated by the Park Depart
ment, conffning bicycling on the Ocean Parkway
to the cycle paths Mr.. Woodruff said
II do not see how Mr.. Potter can he so mistaken
as to make the point that I have issued this
ordinance In order TO re-estabish speeding on tho
Ocean Parkway when the very ordinance about
which he has made such fuss prohibits speeding
we'll bicycling the main road. would
respectfully refer him and all others who are in
terested in this matter to the ordinance as pub
lished in all the papers and upon which he passed
criticism apparently without having informed him
self of It's contents
As to the great question at issue, It bolls itself
down to this: That the two c:cle paths may be
considered the sides of the main driveway. and my
order IS tantamount a regulation that bcycllsts
shall keep to the right of the road, or, in other
words observe the rule that obtains everywhere In
the United States.
TWENTY-FIVE representative wheelmen and mem
bers of the Good Roads Association OF the City OF
Brooklyn appeared at my Office yesterday after
noon at O'Clock TO be sworn in special OFF,
for the purpose of aiding the regular police
force in regulating traffic the Ocean Parkway
Among the number Mr.. Schwabach who is
the only wheelman | have yet heard OF who
has taken Mr.. Poters side of this controversy.
Mr.. Schwabach asked II he would be expected to
enforce the new regulation combining bicyclists TO
the cycle path If he took the oath of Office, to
which l. of course, replied that he would as | pro-
pose TO carry II out just the ten days
CURED by law for advertising II have expired. Mr.
Schwabach then refused TO take the oath of Office
but the other twenty-one men only took the
oath. but In doing a man expressed them
selves as most heartily In accord with my position
on the point in controversy.
Every newspaper article and editorial that I
have seen has been favorable TO the position have
taken am perfectly willing to have the matter
decided in the courts and sincerely hope 1t will be
done. II then 1t Is decided that have acted with
out legal authority, shall be obliged TO use what
Is my undisputed legal right, reduce speed OF
bicycling the main driveway to the lowest posi-
bic rate, for l am determined protect riders and
drivers from scorching bicycsts and vice versa
when the bicyclists have two magnificent patti for
their exclusive
The headlines Of last evenings New-York papers
call particular attention to the wisdom OF my
action. for they read like this Many Scorchers
Outr "A Number OF Accidents the Boulevard
Last Night" Magistrates Lecture Prisoners Se-
verely. Threatening with Severe Fines etc This
is an Illustration of what Is happening on New
York's parkways, but will not be tolerated in
Brooklyn, under the present management OF her
parks and parkways."
New-York tribune., 1896-05-10

1t will be observed that the most important con-
trbu,on In the above list Is that OF Frederick Mac
Monnies the sculptor. who has been designated by
the committee 10 make the memorial statue. The
gift, though characteristic of the artist, really
OF hs contribution to this fund. When
itsremembered 1t that he has at least three years
tracts ahead far better prices than he has offered
do this work for and that he has put them all
off in order 10 devote his time and the best Of his
talents to the production OF statue that shall do
justice 10 the memory OF his friend and grace his
native city. 1t may be understood that his sub
scrption is less a gift than that OF any sub
scrber 10 the fund. Indeed. OF the committee
a connoisseur, says Mr. MacMonnies's price for
the proposed statue Is not more than third what
he would charge any other city for IL