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w NANTED-SITUATION AS BOOKKEEPER
w accOun ant, cashier 5 clerk in any all of
these Capacities; references given and salary not
considered Address Sprekles, box 93 Cali Office
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HELP wANTED-Continued.

WANTED-MEN TO LEARN BARBEHs
w trade; shops tools, positions IuInlSpeeG' ne. Q
weeks required s. F. Barber College, lSS12 Elgntn.
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> GIRLS, MARIN COUNTY, 500; SEE PART
= here. MARTIN & CO., 749 Market St
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HFLP wANTED-Contfnued.

NJ Winchester House ~ Third St, Market
200 rooms; 2bc to 81 81 per night; 81 90 to So
per week; Tree bus ana uaEgage TO and rom ferry
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CROOME DENTAL A>SUCIA ION, 759 DfAR
" ket Det. Sd and 4th: gass specialists; painless
extracting with gas, 81; plates, ST up; I'LL, 81 up
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- A WEEKS NEWS FOR 5 CENTS-THE
- WEEKLY CALL. IN wrapper, for mailing.
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MEAT GERMAN GIRL waNTS A PERMA-
~ nent housekeeper's place or will do plain
mending. 207 Post ST., room 8.
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= MATTRESSES, SAME HOTEL, STEADY
- the year round, fare free. $50 each; waitress,
h tel city, $50; ch amber IN aid. wait at din
neE for springs, $50: 2 wa tresses, same hotel,
city, $50. c. p. HANSEN & CO., l10 Geary St
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Os,O FOR A 500 MARI II BICYCLE, WITH
ID ~ new NJ. Il w. tires -0lo olson ST., after
p. N.
AIDES AND GENTS HIGH-GRADE '96
Il bicycle; cheap 4lS Larkin Turk.
TRIBUNE. $50 PIERCE SPECIAL S45:
i Fowler, $45; all in perfect order Golden Rule
Bazaar. Cycle DEPARTMENT, 25 Geary 81.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17
P~ARAoRAPHIc i

-Int this Cuban affair Mckinley was
expected to checl1mate the king, and all
he has done is to capture a pawn.-Chi-
cago Tribune (Rep.).
In the bright lexicon of the re-
publican party civil service reform
means turning out competent and faith
full democratic officials to put in repub-
lican campaign heelers-Atlanta Jour
nal.
1T was the law-defying trusts. the
political corruptionists. the unfaithful
public officers and the tax-dodging mil
honaires who fed the fires Of Bryanism
last year-and who are adding fresh
fuel to the fire now.-E. Y. World.
President Mckinley Is said to be
ambitious to restore peace and pros
perity to Cuba. The country win wish
him success in the undertaking, even
though he did make a failure of that job
Of prosperity restoring at home.-N. Y.
journal.
The republican papers are bitter
ly lamenting the heavy imports for
March and April. which, they argue,
will not only diminish the revenue after
the new tariff goes into effect. but will
retard the return Of prosperity. There
publicans in congress ought to have
Thought Of all this before they framed
their outrageous bilL-Rochester On.
~ Herald-
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17


AAe x rag. the x ray. what cannot thIi
rne thing can look an elephant OF Rocky
mountain through;
can peffoEate an anvil with penetrating
glance
And smile through half 3 dozen wars Il
comfort or entrance.
% nat vial 70 utter a thought IN mock
ing mirth.
But soon this piercing paradox may per.
teraea the earth.
Then we may stand in New York and from
there plainly see
The almondeyed celestIaIs IN Picking pick
May - AZ Yokohama ne dolngs Of the
AID thr0ush their thickest houses behold
them taking maps:
nor can they keep q secret. for quicker
than q wink,
Wen gaze Into their eraniuins and pic
tuFe what they think.
n mountains Of Australia discern the hid
den minea.
See n ere ave- and erannies the ores and
mineral signs:
Look I'M the deepest bottom Of the FAR IN
dian sea.
And then the aly sea-serpent. o where. o
where IS hee
When All his coral grottoes are seen By
RHA8 AN~VIN4 MGA
And not the smallest snakelet can be hidden
from as then.
Not far on in the future each curtain
swift unrolls,
with cheap ana handy x rays wen see each
others souls:
&oF can young maids, coquetish plav
possum and conceal
1ne names Of those they cherish but vet
would not reveal:
Their Utmost hearts and gixzards we then
can plainly scan,
And In each t~hrobbing bosom behold The
imaged man.
Bank vaults cannot hide from us the empti-
ness within,
Or prove a secret casket to hide embezzling
sin;
No friend a say he has not the wished
for ten or five,
For = rays VIII reveal them and keep our
hopes alive;
And as for spooks, h~obgoblins, elves. imps
and other ghosts,
An x ray would reveal them in adowy
heaps and hosts.
The secrets are all banished, no thought or
thing is hid,
The cute * ray inventor has raised the
long-1ocked lid
sin.
Has dlagramed IT for us and let the search
light In.
cood-by 70 all concealments. the times are
out OF joint.
Upset BY this electric Interrogation point
I EDGAR JONES.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

pers, and WIN the instinct of the news
gatherer saw IN q sketch of the Brown
ing cortege a scoop to stir a veteran.
We lost no time in uniting our forces,
and succeeded in stealing a march on
the European press. That season in
Venice was tile most prolific in my life.
But with spring a longing for my ma
tive land seized me. 1t was 20 years
since / had been in America. In April
Emily sailed; l followed in the next
steamer"
us she beautiful?' I asked, recalling
Marcella.
no" was the quick reply. "But you
ought to see her brother!" he added
with the enthusiasm of his early pas
sion for the beautiful. "a Greek, a
veritable god. my boy"
what of that?"
"Itas in the family" laughed Wen
dell. "Emily's is the charm that sets
at defiance the accepted canons of
beauty. To understand you must
know"
"Or love herr And so you came to
America? ~
II was at Baltimore before Emily had
time to pave the way for my advances
to the general. OF all devoted south
erners in wal OF peace commend me to
Odette. He was al brusque, as cutting
as a November gale of Newfoundland
"'Sir, do you know what you ask2'
he demanded, with fire in his eye and
grace in his pose, despite a battered
limb Concealed, but within hearing,
was Emily.
DO you know what you ask he re-
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

T rs a capricious old world, but there's
one thing endures."
"Age9"
Romance"
"Bahi"
"You wouldn't believe it if 1 were to
tell you I crossed the seas to lay q
flower on old Gen. Odette's grave?"
WAS he in your regiment?"
"A more jealous confederate" ex-
claimed Wendell, never faced a union
bayonet than Odette, until"
He threw back his Apollo head, while
his laugh wakened the welkin.
The we1lin, by the way, was the sky
light Of my studio. The world was
young when first / met Wendell. He
was then the handsomest man in the
Latin Quarter. AS a drummer boy he
had enlisted in the Massachusetts vol
unteers, and at the close of the war his
father set him up in a stationery shop
in New England. But the scribbler's
madness rioted in his veins, together
witha love Of adventure that makes him,
even at SO, one of the most attractive
and refreshing of men. In a merchants
sloop he stole away one day, to turn up
at the Latin Quarter, where in less than
a week he was its admiration and its
despair. "A many-sided fellow was
Wendell, with a good disposition" as
the ateliers have It, of no common or
der. Like his companions, he had no
money, no expectations, yet he had not
been six months at the Beaux Arts, be-
fore he possessed what the cl~everest
OF Us could not hope to achieve for
many q year, q coy little apartment in
the keeping Of the best and loveliest of
wives.
To this day Marcella Wendell rests in
my memory as the most beautiful of
women. Not only was she almost per-
lection III flesh and blood, but she ' e
exhaled the breath of her native Dew
onshire hills. Wendell's nest wal the
zone clean spot in the uncIean whole
Of the Latin Quarter that sprang out
Of the Commune. To us lonely, often
heart-sick American lads, an evening
at Wendell's had the tonic effect Of q
letter from home. Wendell worshiped
beauty. II was while on a sketching
tour fl England that he met Marcella.
She was the daughter Of a provincial
parson, whose regard for a denizen Of
the Latin Quarter was Identical with
that Of the devil for holy water. They
eloped and set up their Lares and Pc
mates ID Bohemia. To Marcella il ever
remained an undiscovered country.
How she toiled to keep the wolf from
the door during the tentative days that
witnessed Wendell's struggle for recog-
nifionl He was q born society man.
He loved the world and it re~ciprocated;
no social gathering missed his brilliant
presence. Babies came, and It was q
fearful struggle to keep the little
menage anoat. but, thanks to MarceIla,
effort was never apparent.
The Wendells were always on the
swing. He. restless fellow, had q way
81 putting q girdle round the earth with
less Of the golden fleece in hand or in
prospect than an ordinary son Of Adam
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17


peated. THE truest. b4avest little won.
an thar ever trod Gods earth-an
Odette, sir, every Inch Of her
"sYou say you area painte9f-What
s. Il to me Il you daub the pyramids.
out-Raphael Raphael. and give Michel
angelo a thrust in the side3'
And write bookae-Books be
hangedi There are too many books in
the world
Your social position is unimpeach-
nble2-What's social position to an
0dette3 The question, sir. is, are youa
man-clean to the core2 That's what
an Odette demands Of a sutton to whose
keeping he gives the life Of a daughter
Of his house. Money, position, career to
the dogs! Are You a man, clean through
and through3
His eyes flashed, his voice Numbered,
he swayed with passion. while I stood
t~ransfxed like q puppet IN the play.
"In a moment Emily was az bis side.
It was the passing Of an April shower.
81 have no doubt, my dear. said the
general with the cooling tenderness Of q
wood pigeon, that all he says, all you
say. Is true. But you win have to wait
until I write TO ma friends ID Paris. I
must have more than lovers rhetoric
before / part with all I possess
Meanwhile, pending the Paris mail,
the general introduced me at his club.
I was feted, wined and dined. The
Odettes were rich IN friends. Revelfnr
in the oid-time hospitality, the halcyon
days OF courtship passed all too quick
"; but at length / grew impatient. and
~uPbraided the dilatoriness Of the for
eign mail. What report would the gen-
erals Partisan friends make2
II was progressing rapidly IA the old
mans favor, when unlucki1y I surprised
him n evening in pain.
SITS that accursed m~infe-balil' he
groaned. Some blasted n~ortherner's
shot. To think that I should have been
in the thickegt Of 80 battles and come
of without a scratch until / ran into
that flying squad Of Massachusetts vol
Jnteers.'
"Ilgave a twitch quite as ~perceptible
as that which the embedded minie-ban
had evoked from the general. He mis-
took fear for interest; in a moment he
was on a accommodating expedition. A
table was drawn up, and soon the scene
of his wound wal hastily mapped out
for me. Decanters represented the com
~federates, wine glasses the union forces,
while a tankard was the general mount
ed on his faithful Winnie. ShouIdering
his crutch, like the hero Of the Bingen,
he coniured before my startled memory
the one scene of my boyish war experi-
ence, the terror of which had never been
effaced.
"'We had fought all Dtght and
marched all day. It was dark when /
came to a deep intrenchment that cut
us off from the enemy's line. nv x.
hausted Winnie-God bless herl-was
about to leap, when q brute Of q drum
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

mer boy leaped out of the ambuscade.
A shot followed and the faithful beast
rolled into the ditch, while I was pitched
into the thicket, where | lay all night
under a drizzling rain.'
MY heart stood still. Could thia
gray, bent, smoldering old war horse ba
the dashing young officer whose curses
haunted me with terror long after /
had been mustered frcm the service.
There was no installing. Not without
misgiving / Joined him in the study
the next morning, where he handed me
a packet of letters that certainly ought
to have filled me with satisfaction, il
not pride.
i was i'll at ease, but for the life Of
me | couldn't find the courage to make
a clean breast of it until Emily was
systematically mine.
General / said, as he followed us to
the carriage that took us to the steam
er. I was in the front with the Massa-
chusetts volunteers
1.-The deuce you were!'
"'And-and-T fear / am the culprit
that ditched you.'
THE irascible old soldier sighed
while his hand grasped mine affection
ately. The restlessness of the unfor-
giving war horse had vanished. To him
had come at last the resignation Of the
conquered.
I'm the Epithalamium Of my son is
victory he said. The victory that
knows not the blue or the gray
"Don't you think / ought to mako
something out Of that?' said Wendell,
as he turned cheerily into Broadway.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

The Dingley bill went to the SEN
ate with raw wool taxed and out
rageous duties on woolens. but with
hides on the free list. The cattle trust
did not propose to stand that. and
through two or three western senators
threatened to kill the bill if a duty was
not put upon hides. The republicans
in the senate responded to this hold-up
by giving the cattle trust what it asked.
So it turns out that shoes and ala other
manufactures of leather must be taxed
because wool is to be taxed and the
duty on woolens Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

finds indispensable for q days outing
Il was many years since / had seen d
heard of them beyond an occasionai
glimpse Of mis- signature in q mnga'
zina on a bonk cover or on a copy
righted photograph Of 8 salon picture
But to-day . parade had brought me Il
my studio window. just opposite, my
eye caught a ribbon OF the Legion 81
HONOR coquetting with a G.. A. X. but
ton in the lapel Of a scat whose wear
err seemed familiar. Before Ihad much
time for a conjecture wendell was In
my studio.
"And Mrs. Wendell?" I said, when We
had crushed our hands in the warmth
of a grasp that punctuated the hundred
expressions with which we congratulate
ed ourselves On meeting again in the
flesh while yet companionab3e with For,
tune and the MUSES.. "As beautiful a.
ever2"
Wendell suddenly Gained.
Graham" he said, at length, MAR.
celia has passed away"
"And the babies2"
They are with her. All, all the old
life is beyond the stats.1
Ny heart went ont to him, but while
my slow wit made effort to condole, to
my consternation-and 1t WINS SO like
the man, ever ready to cut sorrow in
two with q laugh-he fell to spinning
his second romance, which I tell to you
as he told it to me.
II.
"This is how it came about" he said.
1T was lonely, i~nsufferably lonely
after-after-Marcella went home. It
seemed as Il / should go mad. closed
the studio in Rue st. Honore, and
tramped-tramped. The r-estlessness of
the Wandering Jew was upon me. No
spot, however seductive to pen or brush,
could hold me over a day. A pursuing
spirit ever whispered: .Move on!" un-
til the queen of the Adriatic caught
me.
"Browning's funeral barge was float
ing out to sea bearing the empty tenn
pie of the poet to it's long home in
Westminster abbey.
"tOh, for a pictured My fortune
W0AAA NC muNCf Ck1Cu a VOICE from a
gondola that drifted at my side.
There was timbre in the appeal that
struck me like a familiar passage in an
old story. | turned sharply.
"'Why, Miss Odette.'
"'Why, Mr.. Wendell
"a Whit from the mountains. a
breeze from the ocean at midsummer.
Emily Odette! She broke in our
life n summer at Etretat; quite won
Marcella's heart-then disappeared.
She was one of the many sprightly, re-
s~ourceful southern girls that the war
liberated to fit from world to world in
pursuit of livelihood with the grace, the
inesse with which their mothers were
to bask at home in loves and
fortunes Of the gods providing. She
was corresponding for American pa
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

A story was told the other day By
yer Of an experience that q brother 81 h44
4 blind man, had q few days glace while A0
was in the city from q small town % tet
sew. where he resides. Ga the daE m<a
toned the blind man was without 8 guido
and stood on the corner of IWenty-thir1
street and Broadway, wishing - cross K5N
street. While debating with himself ~ q
whether he would try It alone or c9A 3 ro
liceman, 4 woman came up and addressed
him, saying. Mister, would you be KIND
enough to help me across the street, IAeEo
Is snch a Jam Of trucks and carts that aM
afraid to try to cross alone" Certainly
with pleasure, madam" he responded, and
offering her his arm, they started across
Broadway, crossing IN safety. Ehenk Feu
very mnch!" said the woman. me.
madam. II Is I who am thankful, for 7 sm
blind and you helped me TO avoid that
dangerous crossing very nicely, said the
man. esOhn9 said the woman in reproneh-
fnI tones. gYou horrid mani Why, fmiehs
nave been run oyer."-N. IL. Times.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

The leading steel men agree that the most
particular buyers in the country ara fbe
Winchester Repeating Arms Co.. New
Haven, Ct. This company viii only accept
the most perfect Of selected lotss Such IN
formation is not surprising to any one whe
owns a Winchester gun, for its strength and
fine finish is very apparent, The Wlnches
tiers are Just as particular about everything
that is used in making guns and ynlnunl
tion as they are about steel. For this req-
son when you buy Winchester goods You
can be sure of getting the best in the world.
They cost no more than poor makes. Send
for q large illustrated catalogue free.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

The manufacturing interests CT
the country are rapidly discovering that
the way to build up a great trade is to
be freed from customs restrictions. The
United States cannot do business with
q commercial enemy. and protection
makes enemies faster than any scheme
81 reciprocity can make triends.-Ran-
sas City Times.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17
VII Ell. THEIR swAo.
GOldbuE Democrats WIN Not Be For
gotten.

DCAAOCEltB Will MOI ne EORs
gotten.
Let the ''gold democrats hold their
peace. Their pound of flesh will be paid
them in due time by the Mckinley ad.
ministration. Their clamor for cur
rency reform based upon the Indian
apolis plan is to have weighty consid-
Grafton by the powers that be. The
Times-Herald, of Chicago, which is
generally considered one of the inspired
mouthpieces Of the Advance Agent OF
Prosperity" tells its allies not to be
downcast, where two have to ride one
horse, one must ride behind" After
those who fried the fat so literally last
fall, in the interests of Mckinley and
his henchmen, get their share of plum
der and of tariff concessions to them,
then will come the day for the auxil-
~iaries, who are to reap the reward for
their perfdy to democratic principles,
in the shape of a retirement of green
backs, substituting therefor bank bills
based upon the single gold standard. a
standard which is the shuttlecock for
other nations to play with.
The Times-Herald says .'that Nc
Kinley has expressed his concurrence
with the indianapolis plan, and when
the proper time ome win do his whole
duty towards its adoption" This is
certainly very candid and very fair.
The republican party believes in living
up to its agreements with those whom
it wishes to make use of on a future
occasion, and so will its democratic
allies receive snvory recompense to
their hearts content. if they will but
exercise a little patience. - Buffalo
Times.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

Customer Cooking in mirror)-Great aclz
peeled my head of every dern hair there waa
on 1t.
~Barber-Isn't that just what you told ms
TO do?
'sTold you to doy Why, man, Itold you
/ wanted it cut a ia mode
BEG pardon. / thought you said you
wanted e all mowed."=BostOn Courier.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

DRoPsY treated free by DIR. 81. 81. Green's
Sons, Of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adveTs
tlsement in another column Of this b
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

1t is not always the woman who wears
the best salary.-Washington Democrat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up
chIdren's Coughs and Colds-Mrs. N. d.
Blunt, Sprague, Wash, March6, 1894.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

Nothing makes a woman madden than
10 have her husband hurry her when she
~ late.-Washington Democrat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

Even the LATEST man can usually see some
work that another fellow ought to don.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

This is the season of the year when PEG.
pie take sides in ~pronouncing the word
"peony,"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

Everybody has something the matter with
them.-Washington Democrat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

We often think it is a waste Of time to
ive.-AtchisOn Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best, but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17
Ala H-Tlsfortune.

Eyes" he said, II am up to my neck u
debt, but it is my misfortune, not my
!.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

We have used the QUEEN
ClTY PRINTING 1MK CO.
ANk with satisfaction Tor
many years. and are uslng Il
noWs When ln need Of INK
write 70 thems Cincinnati o.
Chicago.
A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER co.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-17

Eyes. You see, / have a faculty for maxi
ing such an excellent impression upon peo-
pie that they still persist in trusting me-
Chicago Post.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-03

The best record for O mile made on
any railroad is 80 seconds, made May
10, 1893, by engine 99e of the N. Y. c.
& H. Il. road.
King Humbert of Italy is the most
heavily insured man in Europe, the
amount carried being over 1880, 900.
The late Car Alexander III. was in
sured for $5,000,0o0.
A whale recently captured in arctic
waters was found to have embedded in
its side harpoon belonging to a whal-
ing vessel that had been out of service
nearly half century.
A British game journal is authority
for the statement that parrots are to be
introduced in German railway stations,
and trained to call out the name of the
place as each train comes in.
Along the coast of Florida and Georgia
the musical notes Of what the old fish
ermen call the singing shad" are often
heard. They differ from the common
shad in being smaller, and also in the
formation of their mouths. Their sing
ing is pleasant at first, but soon grows
monotonous, owing to the fact that ii
is q constant repetition of the same
sounds.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-03
S23,568 81 s23,56s 90

TREAsURER's RALANoE SHEET.
Cash in Treasury to tie credit of the
various funds, June 30, 1897:
In State fund. 800 81
Judges salary fund....... --
In general county fund.-. 555 S6
In cash contingent fund.-. 20
In INDECENT siok fund o d.. 16 20
In county school fund. .... SO IS
Ia officers salary fund.-. e12 10
In road fund. .......... -
Ia County High School fund 534 10
>Allxo Go. Spec. Fl. s. fund go
ID. ...... .......... g. 253 Oe
Dlko Co High School bond
redemption fund. ....... 386 II
Total. S2D8 70