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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-14
TODAYS FEATURES.

Crete.
Russia proposes that the powers send
troops 10 Crete.
horrible maSsicrea reported.
Crock reserves IN America called out
Great Iriioin prepares FOR war.
lillagng In Canea.
Instructions sent to commanders OF
sai@droas TO take steps FOR blockade.
Cnba.
Smallcy telcgrlphod to the London
Times tiat secretary Sherman Will pursue
he same policy In cuba carried ont by tho
last administration
Frank J. Lasrrleu, a natural.zcd Amer
lean citizen. released from Imprisonment
Galveston ataipshootcr returns TO the
urlted STATES.
Details of AIN insurgent attack near Ha-
vana.
Cubans irnict heavy loss on Spanish
troops who attempted to capture II dyna-
mite gun.
General Rcviora says the Cuban army
Is In excellent condition.
II viii be necessary for Spain TO increase
taxes enormously at homo and In Cuba
Said thar enormous amounts of NUM-
tons OF war were landed the past week
DOmrsttc.
Joseph W. Bailey nominated BY demo-
Gratis for speaker of tho house.
Reed and all officers OF the last house
rtuominated by acciamatlon In the rppub-
i,can caucus.
w. Godfrey Hunter nominated for sem
iior by republicans in kentucky.
Popuists in Nebraska seat two supreme
Jrdges.
Chicago lake front decision rescinded by
Secretary Bliss.
Sport,
Al Smith says Corbett Ia In wonderful
condition
Very little betting is being done In San
Wood won the six-day bicycle race at
Cleveland.
Hot springs cooking main opened.
state.
Galveston Wharf company will reduce
wharfage on cotton to ~ cents per bale,
NJ II. Allen. Hickman & Co. OF Paris
filed deed OF trust.
Two daring burglares took place at
Fort Worth.
Insurance men gave ou. nothing after
their conference at Waco,
Texas Legislature.
Mr.. Childs will try, 1t Is raid. to res,ir-
rect the general assignment bill.
General appropriation bill VIII come 'ip
next Tuesday.
Channel bill became a law without the
governors approval.
| Senate committee VIII report fayoCably
on The bIl allowing certain counties 10
issue bonds for railway buildings.
| The House Resolution asking the Fed
cral government TO take charge of the Ne-
lasco harbor. local court. road ana school
bins; Waco charter bill. including a pro-
vision giving the council the right 10 reg
ulate Sunday closing were passed.
Rai1rOads.
1educed rates made by the Houston
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RESERVES IN AMERICA.

They Are Called nnt bN Grccian
Foreign Minister.
81. Louis. March 1.-THE Greek consul
received q Telegram today from the Gre
clan minister OF foreign affairs calling ont
the reserves in this country lie immeal-
ntcly issued a call TO the Greeks in his ter.
rllory 10 apply to him Tor transportation
bone he says this means VAR without a
dc,ibt
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Berlin March To- (Copyrlghted' ISV1' by
the Associated Press Prince bismarck IN
the Hamburg Neehrehten continues 10 op-
nose German Intervention in the cretan en-
broclio. He says that 80 far as Germany is
concerned the Cretlns may cut each others
tbroats until none of them is left, and that
European peace should not be menaced by
this cretan farce"
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plIlnnlnw In anncn.

Athens. March ia dispatch from
Canoa says that last night and today were
given over TO the pillase of houses which
were not protected by the police. The
houses of absent Christians woTe opened by
Turkish municipal authorities On the pre-
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Another Expnlsion order.

Havana, March 1a.-~captain General
Wcyicr has issued oGers TO the military
commanders in cities and towns to expel
all families having any relatives in the
insurgent lines.
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East and West Texas for events TO take
place az Houston.
great number of sfoep heing shipped
from West Texas to st. Louis.
The houston and Texas Central andshe
Austin and Northwestern.
Meeting OF the brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmon.
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TELEPHONE.

OVER THE LINES OF HE SOUTH
WESTERN TELEGRAPH AND TELE-
PHONE COMPANY TO many Of the pria-
cipal cities aud towns OF Texas. Toll
stations at The Central Office. Hotels and
w IL. MARSHALL.
Local Manager
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ES-rtudcnta Of the Texas University APP
roaied 10 to try aud shape Legislation In
the interest OF their Alma Mater.
The organization of Iiomc Industry
clubs.
Entertainment arranged for tho widows
and orphans Of creian patriots,
Arranging for the Grand Army of tho
Republic oncampmcnt.
Tho Houston Post waltz,
Ground purchased for tho location Of
tho new Catholic chrrch OF the Sacred
Heart parish.
now colorei church ard lnnrmary to
be erected.
Tho attractions for the week at the
Young MEMS Christian association rooms.
inspecting Texas colleges and normal
Institutes,
Letter from w. w. Dexter regarding ths
Afro-American fair.
Election OF Houston club officers.
Annual meeting OF the Mansfield Dram
attic club.
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The Markets,

cotton futurcs to points higher.
Worl1s visible supply Of cotton &C.
creased 100000 hales last week.
Packing house products advanced again.
May wheat closed at 7JhUTs@s at chi
cage
Tone of the stock market bullish, Act.
WHY in stocks and bonds.
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THE POST HAD ALL THE NEWS.

II didn't didn't sct nj, the ,c,x. ,,
in
rcmdii, catch lion ali ''''' -" ~" '""
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Galveston Wharf company will reduce
wharfage on cotton to ~ cents per bale
~ #, Allen. Hickman & Co. OF Paris
filed a deed OF trust.
Two daring burglases took place al
Fort Worth.
Insurance men gave out nothing after
their conference at Waco.
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Al Smith says corbett Ia in wonderful
condition
Very little betting is being done In San
Francisco.
Wood won the six-day bicycle race at
Cleveland.
Hot springs cooking main opened.
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OF MIND.

The Mule Persisted in Licking Her
Face.
Here is a story the truth Of which
1 do not vouch for. says a writer in the
New York Advertiser: The scene re-
minded one of that odl picture. when
shall we three meet again." 1t was
at a busy corner on Broadway and a
middle-aged woman who had evidently
been out shopping sauntered along,
looking from one side to the other,
wondering if there was anything she
had forgotten. When everything was
in a heller and SHELTER, everybody was
in haste, either to catch a train or
boat, this m made a bold effort
to cross the street, but before getting
far she was cut off by a car and a
piano wagon drawn by two mules. For
a moment everything was in confu-
sion. Women on the sidewalk nearly
dropped for fear that the woman would
be crushed to death before their eyes,
but the men laughed when they saw
this fimsy woman start to return to
the pavement; but alas, she was over
taken by the piano wagon. The wo-
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A Wonderful New French Cannon.

The Hanoverscher Courier learns
that the ney French cannon is of tn
centimeter canet type, with ~shrapnels
of 6h kilos weight, each containing
800 bullets and attaining a velocity Of
800 meters the first second. The en-
tire cannon, when served by four men,
weighs LAO kilos, and when once load
ed fires forty shots. According to the
Hamburg Nachrichten the quick firing
artillery now being constructed in
France allows the effect of the shell
explosion to be observed at a distance
of 1000 meters. Each French army
corps already possesses two quick-fr-
ing batteries, using %shrapnels of con-
siderable caliber for special purposes
Berlin cable to the New York Journal.
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A UNIQUE Collection Of Rare Postage Stamps.

The most unique collection of stamps
which any one ever heard of is owned
by a m in Binghamton, N. Y.
Not SO much does the oddness lie in
the stamps themselves as in the meth
cd Of arrangement. There are 1862, 900
Of them, and they completely cover
every portion of a bed room set, con-
sisting of bedstead, dresser and chairs.
The stamps are secured to the set with
the aid of glue and then covered with
heavy spur varnish. The stamps can
be washed in their present condition
without injury. This curio of collec-
tons is owned by Mrs. George Wilson
of 191 Vestal avenue, Binghamton, N.
7. The beginning of this strange col
lection dates back many years. The
first chair of the set that was decorat-
ed was owned by a colored family in
Virginia in the middle of the last CEN
tury. Gradually the chair passed from
hand to hand until at last it came
into the possession of Mrs. George
Yancey, a colored woman who now
lives at Ovid, N. Y, enjoying that
which so rarely comes to man or wom-
Virginia in the middle of the last CEN
fury of life. This chair is noticeable in
the accompanying illustration, which
was drawn from a photograph, by it's
general quaint appearance and it's par
ticularly straight back. 1t came from
the banks of the James river when
Mrs. Yancey had been given her free
dom and %journeyed north to New York
state. She made a present of the chair
to Mrs. Wilson, and it was with the
idea of identifying and preserving the
furniture that Mrs. Wilson began dec
Grating with postage stamps. Since
this ancient relic of colonial days has
been adorned in this unique manner
seven other articles of furniture have
received similar treatment, until now
the whole forms one of the most Pc
culiar results of the curio collectors
art that is extant.
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angie, and has resulted in "%ditching''

angle, and has resulted in "%ditching"
a runner.
By this time, II the mercury be
idling anywhere near the cipher, your
hands feel like two blocks nf Ice, and
are about as useful. Be comforteo,
however, for the rest are with you, ana
relief is at hand. The boat is hove TO,
the sails slap and bang, and again you
come to a s%tandstill. The crew jump
off, the girls roll out of their nest OF
buffalo robes, and with their backs 10
the biting wind, tell YOU between their
chattering teeth how perfectly lovely 1t
all is. Then all thrash their
around to restore circulation, or In
dulge in little clog-dances-each n
everyone according to his or her abli-
ity. 1t Is only in exceedingly cold
weather, with heavy winds, that Ice
boating is accompanied by these dis
comforts, if 1 may call them such; n
they are short-lived, for two minutes
of unrestrained gymnastics on the Ice
will bring a glow to the body OF any De
whose arteries contain the full compile
ment of good blood.
The only %precaution necessary Is IN
the matter of clothing. On the &C.
easion above referred to, the members
of the male sex were generally fitted
out with big buckskin mittens, arctic
overshoes, and heavy listers; one OF
two of the party even INDUCED IN the
luxury. of two pairs Of trousers. Our
steersman also had on-he confessed
with a candor that 1 could but admire
all his underwear that was not in the
wash. However, my readers will please
bear in mind that his position ION the
boat is an elevated one, where he Is
raked fore and aft by the bitter wind
The girls were clad in extra heav!
wooden wear, two pairs Of mittens, ant
warm fur caps,
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A LADY'S MAID DISCHARGED.
h Tried to Get the Lady Home, but
the lady Wouldn't Co..

She Tried to Get the Lady Home, but
the Lady Wouldn't Go.
A handsomely dressed blonde wear
ing diamonds, who answered to the
name of Alice Brewer, was arraigned
in the Butler street police court, Brook
Ign, yesterday morning charged with
i~ntoxication. She had been arrested
by Policeman Gallagher of the Sixth
avenue street station late Friday night.
He said he found two women strug-
Cling in Sixth venue and n was try
ing to get the other to go home.
you're discharged" said the blonde
to the woman who was trying to get
her home; you are not fit to attend a
lady"
The policeman said the maid finally
went home, but the blonde sat with her
feet in the gutter until she was arrest
ed. A mar who was in court informed
Justice Walsh that the woman was his
wife, but that her name was not Brew
er. He said she had attended a dinner
and had taken too much wine. She was
found guilty, but sentence was sus-
pended.
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STATISTICS OF PROFESSIONS.

Among the musicians and teachers OF
music the number of women exceeds
that of men, the former being 34,313,
and the latter 1886.
There are twenty-nine schools of
dentistry in the United States the least
annual course being twenty weeks, and
the highest thirty-five.
According to the eleventh census
there were in 1898 21,SO2 young men in
the medical schools in preparation for
an Aesculapian career.
There are 1877 ladies and 7,161 gen.
tlemen engaged in repairing the teeth,
and. with great pains, extracting the
ditto of the American public.
In the district schools of this coun-
try the birch is industriously and sue
cessfully welded by 245,230 women,
aided and abetted by 6,531 men.
The vetinary schools of the United
States contained in 1898 over 500 stu
dents. This branch of medical science
is of comparatively recent origin.
The homeopathic schools of medicine
in the United States have an attend.
ance of female students amounting tc
21.1 per cent of the whole number.
There are 100, 24S men and 1855 wo.
men classed as physicians and sur
geons. The proportion of doctors II
the population is one to about 5000,
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man, seeing what a predicament she
was in, gave a little leap and landed
on the pole chains of the wagon, the
driver, meanwhile, en~deavoring to stay
his team. Before he had succeeded
the was gracefully sitting on
the wagon pole, with an arm over the
neck of each mule. The mules showed
no surprise, but simply stared at each
other as if to say: well Dick, do you
want this new woman?" The other
mule persisted in strolling along and
licking the woman's face. She did not
laugh, nor did she scream, and after
a half-minute Of amusement the driver
brought his team to a standstill and
the woman was safely landed on the
other side of the street.
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TO WILLS.
A Connecticut Judges Plan for Carrying
Out a T~estator's Wishes.

A Connecticut Judges Plan for Carrying
Out a Testator's Wishes.
From the Hartford Times: The only
practical AMI simple scheme for the
prevention of attacks on wills is that
proposed by Judge John H. White of
Hartford, and defeated by the legisla-
ture of 1895. 1t provides that every
person on making a will may deposit
it with a legal officer, who shall give
public notice that a will has been so
offered, and that all who wish % at
tack the capacity of the testator shall
have a certain time in which to offer
evidence and bring the matter to a de-
cision. If no objection to the ~testator's
capacity is made within the time speci-
fed, the will cannot be attacked on
that ground after his death. The con-
tents of the will are not disclosed, even
to it's custodian. No one has any
ground to attack it because he is left
out or gets less than he thinks he
should have. Evidently people will
think twice before attacking the testa-
mentary capacity of a man who is
there to defend himself, especially
when they are uncertain how he has
devised his property, and may be bit
ting off their own noses. AS Mr..
Swiveller remarked about the rooms
at Bevis Marks: "The contingent ad-
vantages are extraordinary" Under
this law there would be no premium
on Withdrawing. The proposed law
does not require any one to deposit his
will. 1t merely gives to every person
an opportunity to make sure that his
intentions regarding his property shall
be carried u and a growing scandal
diminished. Another idea is that the
legislature pass an act directing the
judge in his charge to the jury. in case
of will contests, to instruct them as
to the weight of evidence and the YER
dict that is demanded by the law
These will cases present questions o.
law about which the judge knows more
than the jury; and we can conceive O.
no more infamous practice than that
of breaking a will on technical points
when the intent of the testator is clear
Something should be done to stop this
continued and growing raid upon wills
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CAT AND COON AGAINST DOG
The Fighting Ability Exhibited ny -
Queer Pair of Friends

The Fighting Ability GShApi'ou
Oueer Pair of Friends
Lean yellow cats as hunters are right
successful in the woods. Ihey go
along like snakes, stopping and creep
ing forward slowly and surveying inc
territory with a care that the human
still hunter never learns to exercise"
Fat yellow cats, on the other manu.
are careless. There is one yellow cat
that has gained the name OF the {
low Cat. Other cats are pam yeiiow,
but this one is a class all by ltsell
according to hunters around urah'' Az
Y. They maintain their OPINION w
relating various tales OF the ca~
periority as a hunter. One 1ight la'o
in August the yellow cat gained speciA'
notoriety in the region around Grahl"
From Prospect to Wilmart, from
Wheelertown to Poland, there wasn't
an observer of nature but hau near"
of and wondered at he yellow cats
doings. Old Hi Hubbard put out a
lot Of corn last year near the suiiS
on his farm. Coons got to resortlhs .U'
| the corn in late August, and II night
Lle y6llUW Cat WSIL th$'
thinking to find a partridge sleepih
among the stalks low down, OF a sMait
| bird or two. The yellow cat aluhI
find the birds, but it did find a pfNah
coon. and it liked the black coon uH-
commonly well. The two got acqualht-
| ed, just as a wolf or coyote sometimes
| gets to know a shepherd dog. Inc Two
became great friends. They went along
the rows of corn hills together' as
their tracks in the sand shoWeu' aM"
the cat would sit on it's haunches, WILLIE
the coon pulled down a fat ear. Allel
a time he cat and coon wandered OH
across the field toward Zephyr Helgnts'
Swamp and in the road stopped. BERT
Jones was coming along the ROAD just
then. He had been up to North""ou
on an errand which wasn't anybody
eltse's business. and he had his dog;
along. The dog Is a fighter from pull
dog and bear-tracking stock. 1t was
believed that it could whip even PM.
Perry's fighting dog, which once
cleaned out a wildcat. Jones set the
dog at the cat and coon n away IL
went with a yelping bark mat maae
old Hi Hubbard come to the window
The dog got to the cat and the coon
quickly, but it wasn't a circumstance
to the way it got away from them"
once 1t broke loose. Coons are mighty
good fighters, and lean yellow cats are
in this way quite as good as coons~
The two could have whipped a whole
pack of such dogs as Jones. The cat
got onto the dogs back and stretched
out it's hind legs with the claws rak-
ing the dogs hide. That was "hen
the dog tried to bite the coon. When
the dog turned on the cat the coon set
it's teeth into the dogs tail, and the
tail Is crooked now. The row did not
last %long-only while Jones was run
ming up to join in the mess. Then the
dog broke away from the cat n ran
a rod with the coon hanging on, with
all four legs stiff, and ploughing up
the sand of the road. The dog got
away and kept going, while the two
friendly beasts kept on toward the
swamp.-New York Sun.
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From the Philadelphia Record: A
stuffed dog in a glass case-a common
ordinary street car-adorns the pri-
rate apartments of the proprietor of
one of Philadelphia's largest hotels.
There is a rather curious story connect
ed with the defunct animal, which the
hotel man tells as follows: One day
the dog came nosing about the lobby,
and, although elected several times,
always returned, evidently in search
of the kitchen: Finally, in order to get
rid of the cur it was given a large
piece of raw meat. Instead of eating
the meat there the canine took the
offering in it's mouth and went out
into the street. Out of sheer curios-
ity the hotel man followed the animal
and saw it take the beef to another
dog, which was crouching behind a
step. The latter stood up on receiving
Che meat, and as it did SO held one
foot off the ground. 1t was discovered
that the, second dog was lame. While
the crippled dog was eating it's meat
the other stood guard to see hat there
was no interference. So it came to pass
that the proprietor took both dogs into
the hotel and christened them Damon
and Pythias. Damon is the one in the
case, and Pythias still runs about, al
though old age is creeping on apace
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"SCRAPS."

There are 1873 Americans living in
Australia.
The queen has sixty pianos at Os-
borne, Windsor and Buckingham pal
ace.
Fleet street in London is being wild
ened and it cost $15O,0O0 to move back
one tavern.
There are still 20, 0O0, 900 square miles
of the earth's surface that have not
been explored.
There are $40 prisons in Asiat.c and
European Russia, with the total num-
Der of 100, 1913 prisoners.
Forty-five carloads of walnuts, val
ued at nearly $40, 900, were shipped
from Fullerton, Cal, this year..
Wild dogs are becoming numerous in
the vicinity of Wilcox, Ariz., where
they kill a great many young calves.
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QUICK CHANGES IN COURT.
A Chicago Prosecuting Att. rney Wears
. False Beard.

A Chicago Prosecuting Att. rney Wears
. False Beard.
In the trial Of the three men accused
OF robbing the Office of the Western
Foundry Company Of Chicago recent
Iy. the prosecuting attorney, Hickman
Seaman, proved himself to be a light
ming change artist Of dexterity and
swiftness. The main points in the
case of the prosecution hinged on the
alleged disguise of two Of the robbers
by, means of false boards. Attorney
Seaman in his examination Of the fore
man of the foundry, who was in charge
of the Office when the hold-up was CON-
mitted, startled the court and the
prisoners by suddenly turning around
and facing the witness with a blond
false beard attached to his face. The
resemblance to the man who held up
the foreman was remarkable, and he
afterward testified hat with the beard
attachments he was sure that it was
one of the prisoners who held the re-
volver to his face. The other robber
was said to have worn a false black
beard, and the attorney also faced the
witness with his facial appearance al
tered by this addition.