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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-01

Don't bolt your food. it frritates
your stomach. Choose digestible
food and chew it. Indigestion is a
dangerous sickness. Proper care
prevents it. Shaker Digestive Cor
dial cures it. That is the long and
short Of indigestion. Now. the ques-
ton is: Have you got indigestionp
Yes. if you have pain or discomfort
after eating. headache, dizziness,
nausea. offensive breath. heartburn,
langour, weakness. fever. jaundice,
ilatulence, loss of appetite. irritabil-
ity. constipation. etc. Yes, you have
indigestion. To cure it. take Shaker
Digestive Cordial. The medicinal
herbs and plants of which Shaker
Digestive Cordial is composed. help
to digest the food in your stomach ;
help to strengthen your stomach.
When your stomach is strong, care
will keep it so. Shaker Digestive
Cordial is for sale by druggists, price
10 cents to 81 per bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-01
ROWLING BREEZEy,

Bowling. Sept. pheasant Ridge
school has opened with K. Miller as
teacher.
Perry O'Haver is driving fine
new carriage.
Mrs. Gehrt is visiting Mrs. C. B..
Ellis and family for few days.
Cora is ripening very fast and can
now be considered out of the way of
the frost.
Monday afternoon there was q
horse race. 1t was won by Guy
Hodgson's stesd, which carried away
the $40 purse.
There was a wrestling match be-
tween two of our we'll known deni-
zens Tuesday night. Full particu-
lars can not be had, but sufficient is
known to say that it is not all set
tied vet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-01

WANTED-GooDS TO STORE IN CHEAP,
w Glenn and light storage rooms, with ele-
vator ut 1923 Second avenue. johnny Jones
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
SOME PosTsCltIPTS.

New Hampshire In 1890 had gained but
sc 900 inhabitants In forty years.
The value OF the output from New Eng
land factories has quintupled since 1850.
Bootnaklng is carried on in New Eng
land TO a degree that eclipses all European
nations.
In twenty years the cultivated area OF
New England has diminished from ll.l5O.-
900 acres TO lO.7i0,ooO
In Garr!ck's time when the weather was
warm the mon In the pit took off coats
and vests.
In the last wcnty years the rural popu-
lation in Maine. Vermont and thode Island
| has diminished
During the cntre-acts of the Greek thea
| ter the boys sol dates. figs. bread and wine
| In the seats.
Garrick tried to abolish prologues and
epilogues. hut the audiences OF his day
! would not consent.
! In all the capitals OF Europe save London
some theaters are kopt up by government
support.
Creek and Roman architects placed
earthen Jugs in the walls NJ theaters TO
increa u the resonance.
Irish and French Canadians constitute 20
rer cent Of the foreign population In New
England
ttneTal Nnllop Is the name or the sec
Rotary Of the British National Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children
Although Greece has an abundance Of
scacoas, most OF the fish eaten are i'm
ported the imports OF fish averaging $780,
600 yearly.
The annual output OF tho manufactures
Of Great Britain represents Sll5 per in
habtant; In New England 4: represents
S3iH per nhabitant
In the last century the grave digger IN
Hamlet excited immense enthusiasm by
pulling off one after another. 4 couple OF
dozen waistccais.
Nearly seventy round towers from 30 to
lS5 feet high, are found In various parts OF
Ireland. They are believed to have been
used In the ceremonies Of fire worship.
II the landed surface of the globe were
divided and allotted in equal shares TO each
OF It's human inhabitants 1t would be found
that each would get a plot OF 23M acres.
In The days OF Queen Elizabeth It was
customary to strew green PUSHES on the
uncarpeted floor oi the actors retiring
room in the theAters. hence the term
''prppn room
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Dr. Edward Eggleston intends to devote
the remainder Of his life TO writing his
tory OF American life IN the Seventeenth
century.
Don Cameron OF Pennsylvania has given
a horso valued ut So 900 TO President Diaz
of Mexico. The freight charges were 5000
In gold.
New York man who saw Mr.. Hanna in
that city last week says that the senator
mover looked better in his life. His face
d cS not wear that careworn expression
which was 80 characteristic of him during
tho camuaign.
j. Edward Addicks. the gas millionaire
OF Delaware. has become the client OF
Grover Cleveland In an important caso. Mr.
Addicks didn't have enough money to
break into the senate. but he has plenty
10 nay his lawyers.
The st. Paul Ginbo says: "a picturesque.
figure in the lobby OF the Ryaa hotel re-
comfy was Miss Carrie Bacon. who is cut
IN the Wild West III tho interest of a NAM
moth chewing gum establishment which
mas its Headquarters in ohio
The German emperor Invariably carries
With him wherever he goes small re.
volver The threats OF the anarchists have
made this measure OF security seem neces-
cary. His majesty is a skillful shot. and
tho chasscur who accompanies MIN
everywhere has received orders to inspect
ms weapon every morning TO insure the
iact Of It's being in working order.
Mr.. Labouehcro is gratifed at being able
70 MT an end TO slaepticism sbou. his
Twlckonham house being built or tho site
OF Popo's villa. In making iepairs recent
lv a stone was found on which was carved
the inscription; ION this SPOT stood. until
1909, the house Of Alexander Pope, The
groito that formed the basement still re-
mains-lSis."
Next to Carmen sylvia. the queen OF Rou
mania, Queen Olga of Greece is considered
one OF the most unconventional of reign
Inc queens. She walks about a great deal
alone and has climbed to the top OF Mount
Lycabeitos without companion. one of
her most Intimate friends is an American,
Nine. Bakmaetieff, wife OF the first seere-
tary of tho Russian legation, formerly Miss
Beale OF Washington.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
HOUSTON, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1897.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

Is 1T possible that the administration n,
Washington Is going to emulate the activ-
'ty OF the man on the sinking ship who
was impo|led to take up a collection when
he was informed that the time had come
TO engage in religious deyotioas? is II pos
sible that Mckinley and Sherman at last
recognize the party and administration
necessity OF doing something Cor suffering
Cuba.
There are no worse conditions now in
the stricken island than have existed for
year past. Months before Mr.. Mckinley
was inaugurated 1t was common iutorma-
tion that famine was stalking through
cuba, that tho torch Mad devastated the
fields. that disease and starvation were
counting their victims Icy the hundreds.
Weeks ago. about the time. in fact. that
our new administration took hold, Wey-
ler's brutal order went into OBJECT com.
polling the budding together OF thousands
OF sick, destitute and starving people in
the already oyercowlad and impoverished
towns only now has the government at
Washington begun TO manifest any humane
interest in the Cuban situation or IA her.
In the situation of the Cubans.
1t is somewhat significant. indeed. that
only when the republican regime has be-
gun TO se discredited at home, when the
hard times that were TO be improved are
growing harder when thora are unmis-
taxable evidences OF disappointment and
disgust at the growing indications OF re-
publican failure TO give relief at home;
when, In short. the republican shin is
beginning 10 leak and danger threatens
has it been thought worth while by the
president to do something religious" by
taking up collection. SO TO SPEAK. for
tho Cuhans.
The peculiar time and circumstances las
iify suspicion that The motives back Of
tho proposed action or promised message
with reference TO Cuba are political. rather
than purely and honestly humane. sun.
IT is better to get good deeds through self
ish motives than not TO get them at all
Let the administration take effective meas
nres to relieve the poor Iubaus from star
walton or death by dsease, even at this
late hour and the American public will
give the president and his Secretary. or
congress. whatever credit is due them -
even though the motive be chiefly TO diver,
attention from homo affairs
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16

| In the senate amendment. as well as in the
amendment offered by tho gentleman, from
Illinois (Mr. Cannon)--I want to caution
gentlemen who believe with me that we
| ought not TO enter upon such policy as
this, that the next step Will be to carry
out the policy Indicated by tho gentleman
from New York. who advocates the annex
alton Of Hawaii. Gentlemen should hold
themselves against the Influence of the
appeal which is made 10 them upon the
ground that there Is possibility or
probability OF England securing these Is.
lands, so that the United States will not
be able TO have a coaling station there.
For myself, ! am opposed to such pol
Icy. | do not believe that England will
sack war with us, or that we should have
war with Englrnd. Next TO a conflict with
my own brethren / would most deplore
war with England, because not only is she
the mother of this country, but her leo
pie speak the same language as ourselves,
and next TO ourselves her people have the
freest government on earth. prefer to
cultivate the arts of peace rather than
those OF war. believe that behind and
beneath both of these amendments there
turks a policy OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT in for
cign countries which may possibly put us
In a position that war between tho Eng
fish speaking peoples Of this earth may
possibly be the result. and this would
regard as deplorable in the extreme.
therefore trust that both these amendments
will be voted down.
There is. in my Judgment, no immediate
and no pressing necessity for this expend-
ture. | can not for moment think that
the English government will adopt policy
toward these islands that would be detri-
mental to the interests of the pcople of
tho United States or antagonistlc to the
great doctrine which bears the name of
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
HOW PLEDGES ARE KEPT.

The people under mousrchlcal govern.
ments Ike that OF Great Britain. whero
'heFo is limited popular representation
and a certain degree only of local yeIf
government such as is enjoyed In The
British provinces. really appear TO enioy
more protection against favored classes
than ye enjoy under our republican lnsti-
tutions
II Is Instructive TO contrast the care for
popular interests and general trade and
small capitalists, exhibited In tho now
Canadian tariff measure. with the open
neglect OF such interests displayed In our
pending tarifr legislation. one OF the nota-
bic sections OF the Canadian bill is the fol.
lowing:
90 That glst whenever t shall appear 10 tho
10, 'Ies,pu OF the goVrrnor-u- rouneil
tIat respecting any article Of commerce.
mere exists any trlgsla, amy ccfntIm',-'I,',
u4socidllon or agreement OF any Er'l
UNIONS me manufacturers OF such arfi''.@,
OF lhe dealers therein or any portion ~
lnem. 10 enhance The price Of sucG W
lsede, or in any other way TO unduly uro
,",,., 'ns 1HNan'aEe OF such manufar-
tufsrs or dealers at the ,-Nrsns,. ~ ~
vonHuihers' and that such d!s.sdva,;eec IN
VIC consumers Is Facilitated by no AZ,
in pii.s tnliiy 1nRosei on like article when
s0Ilf Alsfl
snall place such article on the frae ia.
30 reduce the duty on II az m 10
~ me pubic the benefit Of re.qr,.si, '
'e'ps"|"H IN such article.
IL was part OF the pledge OF I'M. p.
publican party and, In fact. Of all marine
70 the people last year that in any rea,'
'usiment Of our tariff duties the sehesulc,
would be so arranged as to denriva tho
trusts OF any special benefits or protec,inn
In pursuance of an attempt TO keen This
pledge the democrats In the house recently
oierei several amendments OF The tenor
Of the section Just quoted. but they wer.
overwhelmingly voted down, and IN this
good day no such exception appears In IN.
new tariff bill, On the other hand, seyaral
conspicuous features appear fayorlng GER
tain trusts.
The action by the congress is a familiar
illustration OF the manner In which public
pledges are kept in this country. The peo-
ple are led during tho campaign TO expect
great things, which. however. never or
rarely materialize IN legislation. Once
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
THE CITY,

This Post l. delivered to any part OF tn :
eEy by carriers at 81 per month: three
nonths. $500; six months. $500: one year,
G2 70.
Mr.. Theodor. Bering has charge OF tho
CITY Circulation anu Collecting.
Mesrs Theodore Bering and Charles
Lott are tho authorized collectors of all
city bills both Advertising and subscrip-
ton, and no money should be paid TO aay
oae other than thoso named. unless special
written authority signed by the Business
Manager Is shown. All accounts OF any
BIO should be paid by check IN favor VI
The Houston Printing Company
No orders FOR goods" etc. are riven By
the management, and none will be accept-
I'd In payment OF office bills,
Subscribors falling to receive tbs paper
regularly VIII please notify the offce
promptly. Every subscribers pap, Is ex-
heoted 10 DO delivered not later tan $50
I'm.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
The Vice Presidents Home.

W aouitRNon i~tiltI.
The vice president and Mrs Hobart take
possession Of the Cameron house ON Madi-
son place, facing Lafayette square, WASH
ingion. this week They intend to remain
I'm town AS late as possible The house is
one OF the most eommodous in the West
End. situated within a stones throw q the
White House and commanding an uninier-
rupted sweep Of the park. 1t adioins tho
Lafayette Square theater, erected a year
ago ON the site oi the old blaine n9l.sion,
popularity regarded as hoOlooud by reason
OF It's long record OF misfortun1s. II was
IN front Of the Cameron house that Barton
Kew met his death through a pistol fired
by General Siclles and over it's back fence
ESCAPED tho would-be ASSASSIN OF secretary
Of State Seward. The vice oresdeats new
home Is az light brick, two stories In
height. with a veranda extending across the
entire second story. A narrow parking In
front. enclosed by an iron railing. is brill
liant with bloom. and the eide doorway.
but one step raised from lhc pavement.
admits to lofty hall extending the entire
depth OF the dwelling, The drawing rooms
are on the second floor; the arrangement
throughout is upon a scale OF old fashioned
simplicity.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
POSTS LETTRP =.

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houston Post. me Lester 3. shsi
W. ~ IsY,s''ons received 70 the larss -. q
De elven prompilSas~ers CA I M 1
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eu 10 boethius. "A. D. s,s 1s I. oeeh aees,1
common consent perhan. .s1
nearer conclusion can bs oe'srss ,
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The smallest gold c,,, Ia q
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are the one-dollar coin. yoa u sa'
naVe a quarter of dollar ro Il ~ aa,l d's
II was not coined by thu , m,s. eNh, Y
on''sa States. a careful exsm,a.s !. Y
'he coinage of all the United $50.
sinee their institution fans 10 Az, M
coinage. Your piece bears n. 1 -. y
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mint at San Francisco wa, -.
lished until 1854. WI sfls
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16

When and by whom was m. An, a.
DAY school organized in Texas? WV
There is no record from which IL, i,
formation can be obtained. The tirt hi
fesfant minister that ever ofasa,e, !,
IeNas was the Rev. Sumner Bacor
Cumberland Presbyterian, in Ia. NJ
first Baptist church was Organize, n
1910. a Presbyterian church was orn,l
wed at Milan, Sabine county, in lss
How did the Idea of Santa Chm, y
taught to the children or.ginass'
! W. WI
Santa Claus is the Dutch name for NJ
! Nicholas, the patron saint Of BOYS M
is said TO have been bishop Of Myra ~
TO have died In the year 38 B. c, nj
young were taught TO revere him, tI
the fiction which represents him a N
bearer of presents to children on chHsI
mas eve was developed in the same ral|
ner.
Was Colonel Robert E. Lee syer 81
toned in Texas? COW.
Yes: he was colonel Of the un!s|
States army stationed at San AntorAI
just prior 10 the civil war. The unsk|
States troops In his charge protected VI
Mexican border and broke UP the y
roudlnG expeditions that were condpt1|
under tho leadership of Cortina, AsrI
can bandit.
Can you tell me the definition Or e.fa|
SSf. IL, sst,sHag al n n.
"Masher" Is by some believed 70 y
rived from the Celtic meas, elegant e'|
others say It's source is masba. wosa Fl
the old Romamy or Gypsy tongue. SIGNIFY
ing the fascination of the eye.
Was President Lincoln q msmesr- II
any church? ALL
He belonged 10 no denomination. n
was Christian believer. He was ono n
those whom some one has desanlnas
as the outside saints" who belox
the Invisible church. but not to M VI
ible.
Why Is a prize fight spoken MN.
"mill2"
The word doubtless comes from thsea
fashioned fulung mill. in whieh 'hs ~
was beaten by alternate blows from ~.
blocks attached TO two long oeaa'
arms. moved by machinery.
A ASSERTS that the use o. .ns ~
States flag as a trade marx or w,
on any article of commerce, eNpG III,
eie,n or domestic, is prohibi,ed ? s.s,s
imins that the use of the uhip sn,ne,c.
fug on any legitimate arEcle Of coa as,y
is not prohibitory. Who is eofIc coz
A is correct; there is such iAS'
VIII YOU state in the Columns smsri
valuable paper whether Prince p ~ ssasds
ever represented Prussia as anu nps soan
or minister p.en.potenisary az Fibrs
of St. james? :, patsx
No: he represented Pruss'' a. >. 1870
burg and also at Parts. but VS.
minister to England.
VIII YOU kindly state on IN, MA Gan
Grover Clevelands nrsa o''N F,P
Ruth was born? ,..r. n
For the ninety-n.nth time aA's
answer. October 3. 1871.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
LEADING EDITORIALS.
From the Now York Journal

From the Now York Journal.
HOW "The republican voter. st
sociETf says Senator Plat in
is SAVED. an address to the pub
lie, "is not to be enlisted in any more
non partisan enterprises. In theae days.
when the red flag OF disorder and confis-
cation threatens to wave wherever Amer
lean enterprise and thrift arc established.
ne has too much at stake" Interpreted so
as to bring 1t within the understanding
OF common men, this language means the
democratic National platform. which de-
clare1 against government by the injunc-
lions OF courts instead OF the laws OF con-
sress ana the States. In favor of an income
taA' ana fer bimetalllsm In preference to
recommendation. A large minded and pa
.riouc publicist like MIR. Plat can. OF
course. have no sympathy with declara-
tlvns so extremely radical as these. He
stands as wall against all dangerous in
hoVation. The real ISSUE he announces
IN clarion tones. whether in New York or
elsewhere. is that which twenty years OF
socialistic agitation has gradually pushed
~, me front, the issue on which great po-
'tlcai party has at last been captured, and
wnleh now. sustained BY a party organva-
lion' menaces law and order ana the rights
y. Puperty ana the opportunities of labor
throughout tho United States"
row the republican party OF New Yort,
whloh is owned and directed ,y Senator
riatt encounters this plenacing socialistic
ADVANCE was shown by Mr. Pats lerisla-
ture. recently adjourned. There the as
aehlnied saviors OF society exhibited their
ItSpN' Tor property by permitting the
trusts 10 dictate all the anti.trust legjsla
.ioh' came to the rescue OF law and order
ny imposing the Raiues rules and regula-
LIONS on the turbulent metropolis, rejected
sne neiaflous proposal TO cheaper gas did
IA an 'hings as they were bid by self seek
ing wealth and Mr.. platt and so at once
Iepuked the sinister forces .: disorder and
eohtiscaiion, and 1t is to he presumed
enlarged the opportunities Of labor"
similarly, the republican oarty, In control
AT washington as Mr.. Plat w. in control
at Albany. repels the socialism that has
seized upon the democracy by giving tariff
,aVors IN return for contributions to the
Mchinley campaign fund, and allows The
sugar trust TO write the schedule OF the
Dingley bill.
so long as We have the republican marty
TO 40 battle against tho advocates of con-
!..scatioh. and such friends Of the PEOPLE as
MI fIatt to place their bodies between tho
rights OF property and the opportunities of
Ianor ana those who menace boih. we may
4" TO bed each night In the comfortable
assurance that wealth has no ohanco Ia
Pluhder poverty. and power no encourage
theht 10 Cypress the weak The senator is
10 he congratulated on many things. hue
on none so much as ais nerve
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
rrom the InaIanapolIs sentlnel.

we are IN receipt OF q
"""AN- new publication which
IxtTIoN. hears the old tamu,s-
Pccksnlfflan title OF Sound Money" Upon
It's first page is a handsome half tone etch-
ing, beneath which appears the following
explanatory line: The Hon. Lyman j.
Gage. secretary Of the treasury and able
eNpounder OF sound financial principles"
II would be quito superfluous to add any
thing further TO show that this publication
is some sort Of an organ OF the yard-stick
financial school but what sort? A second
examination OF its columns discloses the
fact that Sound Money is tho monthly hull
leiin OF tho National Sound Money league.
And what is the National Sound Money
league?
The National Sound Money league. says
the publication, is an organization formed
on strictly mon partisan" lines 20 carry
on the work OF educating the people on