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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22

Tenn; T. Cfartner to Chicago; Robert
y Lines and G s. Meyers to Nashville: T. j
-. Louis; f. S. Carleton to Atlanta. Ga.
X. L. Boone and j. j. Archer to st. Louis
We're among the passengers on the Inter,
'tathon3l and Great Northern fast mail
yesterday afternoon. ''"''
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22

scription win give better understanding
OF the style Of the building and its aJapta-
llHty for the purpose for which it is In
tended
IL win be constructed Of brick stone and
terra Gotta, and contain twelve class rooms
six on each floor. Il principals room,
teachers room. Two recitation rooms ana a
library, together With ali modern accesso-
rles IN tho way of layatories etc.
The main entrance as shown in the cut,
Is approached by two broad flights Of stone
eters that ascend to spacious entry court,
thence into maln vestibule SS10 feet, and
from there into Il subcorridOr, 10 the LETT
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22
A Clever Trick

II certainly locks like it, but there is
really no trick about it. Anybody can try
~ wno mas Lame Back and Weak Kidneys.
malaria or nervous troubles. We mean h.
can cure himself right away by ,aLing
Electric Bitters. This medicine tones nm
the whole system, acts as stimulan, ~
the Liver and Kidneys. is a blood purifiar
ana nerve tonic. 1t cures Constination
headache, Painting Spells, Sleeplessness
Melancholy. It is purely Vegetable. mild
,asauve' ana restores the system to lis
haRurai yigor. Try Electric Bitters ana
be convinced that they are q mirac,a anu
err Every bottle guaranteed. only so CENT
bottle At Geo W. Heyer's drug store
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22
An Afternoon w.,,.

AZ O'Clock this afternoon at Christ
ehuren MISS Fannie Alsbury, daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Alsbury, will be mar.
RED to Mr. Risley +. Beayens. son az car
tam =. {. beayens. Both the contractiar
parties are well known in Houston and
have a host OF friends. Hnd
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22

Sykes. All the roles were eXcelently in
terpreted and the presentation of the pref
~ drama heartily enjoyed by the audi
ence.
The great production "In Gay New York;
viii be seen here tomorrow, Thu:7day
night, There are over sixty people in this
company, A big lot OF scenery Is carried
and the attraction is put on III metropoi-
tan style. The evening promises to be one
Of rare enjoyment. In Gay New York"
has drawn crowded houses everywhere.
The Baldwn-Mclvllle Repertoire COM
pauy came in yesterday from New Orleans
and will rest here until Christmas day.
when they will be seen at the opera house
in two performances, matinee and evening.
They viii need no introduction to Houston
audiences. although many new faces VIII
be seen in the company this season
| MIR. Jack Hirsch, representing the Miss
| Francis Of Yale" company. an attraction
10 he soen here next week, was in tie city
| Yesterday
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22

of which is the principals room, 13xl5 feet.
10 the right of the subcorridor is Il similar
room Tor teachers and also tor recitation
purposes.
Opening into the main corridor are six
class rooms on each floor, the dimensions
of these clGss rooms being 25A32 feet. and
they will each accommodate fifty pupils,
and are SO PLANNED that each room is amply
provided with direct light and ventilation.
On each floor there will be laVatories
for male and female teachers, while the
scholars layatories and play rooms occupy
the basement. which also contains the Jan
itor's room, the boiler room and the fuel
repository.
The second floor in plan and constitute
ton. viii be similar to the floor below
The building is to be heated by what is
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22

Gerggenheimer Rye. Blakemore. a
G, Taylor Chicken Cook. for sale a. Ar
chle's Saloon. +o2 Preston and Travis. No
: bottles, 81 I, and full quarts 81. ~. onsn
day aud night Famous lunches daily from
10 .. m. to y. m.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22

4 pair OF link cuff buttons nr
1se,y customer during Xmas week IN ~ :,
sksrn's Troy Laundry. gi2 Prairie ava
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22
Imucrni Of Pa,r,cs ~

The funeral Of Patrick W. Farre,. Who
died 70 Unexpectedly At the residence 3,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
A Matter Of Urgency.
Hartford Courant.)

General Miles is able to report to the
honorable secretary of war that the army
was never in a higher state of efficiency.
and that its personnel is constantly i'm
proving. But there is not enough of it
for its work, or for the public safety.
Over thirty years ago it numbered 81, 1000
men, and the ableSt military men and
statesmen were agreed that it was none
too large. Since then it has been reduced
successfully to A. 600. to 80 600. and to 25,-
600. The impression has become crys-
tallized." remarks the general. that such
number is sufficient for any and all con-
ditions of the country This is. of
course, a wholly mistaken and mischiev-
Gus impression. The generals suggestion
is that the maximum be one soldier to
every 1000 citizens and the minimum one
soldier to every 2OOO citizens: the number
actually in service within this limit to be
determined by the President according to
the necessities and requirements of the
government"
He is especially emphatic and impress
slve upon the urgent Importance of
strengthening the artillery arm of the
service. in view of the requirements of
the new coast defenses. He says
Approximately $500 900 have been APP
propriated by the government which is
nearly one-third of what is required to
put the country in a safe condition of de-
Tense. This has been expended in the con-
struction of modern Notifications and
high power guns of great force and mag
nitude. These weapons for defense are
entirely different from what was known
to the world generation ago modern
gun. with its carriage, emplacement and
ammunition, costs on an average $lOO, OO0
To properly preserve, keep in working or
der and man them in time of hostility re-
quireS a most expert and Skillful knowl-
edge on the part of both officers and SOL
diers in the artillery service. The five
regiments of artillery are entirely made
quate to man the batteries that the gov
eminent has authorized be placed in po-
sitions for the defense of the coast, and at
least two additional regiments of artillery
are required for immediate duty in this
service. l therefore earnestly recommend
that Congress authorize an addition of
two regiments to the artillery arm of the
service. The artillery regiments have
heretofore been effectively organized in
having two first lieutenants to each bat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

gold. Countries which have depended en-
tirely upon silver, and neglected to for
tify it with the credit of the nation, will
suffer-as they have already suffered
from the decline in silver value. which
has been going on for a quarter of a
century; but the United States, England.
Germany and France, will never realize
that there is any disparity between gold
and silver so long as they limit the COIN
age of the discredited metal to an amount
which arouses no fear of the nations
power to redeem.
The fact that England will not adopt a
fictitious ratio should be an example and
a warning to us. If this country should
ever have another spell of mental aber-
ration and should succeed in an attempt
to force the price of silver up by unlim-
tied coinage. the consequences would fall
upon ourselves. The general wreck of our
business would probably affect some Brit
ish investors, but the loss to them would
only be comparatively small and the en-
barrassment only temporary, while the
people of this country would not recover
from the shock and consequent retarda-
ton for twenty. and possible fifty, years.
If the present promising conditions hold
out for two or three years, as there is
every Indication they WILL We will never
hear another word about free silver as a
lever with which to raise the price of
wheat or uplift prosperity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

That famous tourmaline mine on Mount
Mica near Paris Hill. even surprised its
best friends last week. when Loren B.
Merrill, who has been mining there for
several weeks, blew open a new vein of
pockets, and brought forth five tourma-
lines, each about an inch in diameter. and
about four inches in length. No one of
these is the largest gem ever found there,
but the Oxford Democrat says the five
gems constitute by far the most valuable
find ever made at Mount Mica. What the
value of the find amounts to those con-
nected with the mining company are for
hidden to disclose. but from other sources
the Democrat learns that it amounts up
into the thousands of dollars, and if pub
lished would make the KlOndike stories
look tame. And this week an even richer
find was. reported when the biggest pocket
of tourmalines ever opened there was I'M
covered, Monday. One of a green color
about the circumference of quarter dol
lar and two inches long. was one of the
most valuable ever taken out A pink
stone was found of about the same dimen-
sions, besides a number of small stones
These minerals are valued at several
thousand dollars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
II Cannot Be Done.
Seattle Post-Intelligencero

TIL failure of the United States none
tary commission has at last been made
manifest. The delay has been occasioned
entirely by the unwillingness of some of
the members of the British government to
give up all hope of a conference. The
vague hope entertained, that in spite of
all past experience and present Judgment
something might be done for silver is
only dispelled because it is impossible to
make the world accept silver at any other
price than that which it can make for it
self in the markets of the world.
1t is idle now to repeat the well-known
arguments on both sides of the question
the greatest commercial nation has had
the courage to take the stand that legis-
lation can no more raise the price of sill
yer to that of gold. than it could last
year have raised the price of wheat to
what 1t is this year. Plentifulness of
wheat all over the world kept the price
down; an abundance of silver has lowered
Its value. A scarcity of wheat has raised
its price; if silver should become scarce
1t would increase in price in the same
way
But this need not concern us. Gold was
never cheaper in the history of the world
than 1t is today Notwithstanding the
cheapness of silver. The output of gold is
been. and the prospect is that IN the next
Few years it will be greater than ever.
The failure of the commission need not
worry us again, because every silver dol
lar in this country is equal to every gold
dollar. Not one dollar that has ever been
coined in all the years of our indepen-
dence as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
immense quantities of silver bought by
the government-but is on a par with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
Lawrence Dunbar

The old time foot ball spirit at Bow
dom is being aroused, and the under
graduates and alumni confidently ex-
pect that the closing games Of the sea-
son will be victories to be proud Of.
Ever since foot ball has been played in
Maine Bowdoin has stood head and
shoulders over the other institutions Of
the State in this branch of athletics,
but this year through a combination
of hard luck, poor coaching and bad
management the opening games were
anything but creditable exhibitions
Tufts and Bates, both of which teams
Bowdoin had always beaten, won IN
poorly played games. and it was little
consolatiul to Bowdoin men that the
team beat Exeter and made a good
SHOWING against Harvard. Now the
team has taken a brace, got new coach
es. and is playing under a different
system, so that the supporters of the
white are confident of regaining their
former honors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
The Ideal Hostess.

She must make you feel individually
that you are the favored guest.
She must make you feel perfectly at
home.
She must see everything, and yet pos
sess the art of seeming to see nothing
She must never look bored.
She must know how to get congenial
people together.
She must know how to keep CONVEX
sation always going.
She must never let any one be
sighted or overlooked.
She must know when to ask the anna
teur musician to display his or her tai
entS.
She must be perfectly unselfish about
her own pleasures.
She must remember that nothing IS
so tiresome, so surely death to all en-
joyment, as the feeling that one is be-
ing entertained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

tery-n my judgment an unnecessary ex-
oense, and an obstruction to proper pro-
motion. | therefore recommend that the
artillery arm be increased and organized
INTO seven regiments of artillery in ac-
,ordance with the recommendation made
n my last annual report, approved by the
ormer secretary of war. and introduced
II a bill presented to the last Senate by
ne Hon. Joseph r. Hawley, senator from
Connecticut, chairman of the military
committee of the Senate.
Some congressman who know more
sbout politics than military matters have
omforted themselves by saying that. in
my sudden emergency. the National
Guard could man the coast batteries.
That's ignorance. and it's also nonsense.
N an article in the journal of the Mill
tary Service Institution" General George
A. Wingate says that field batteries
should be formed in the several states.
inder the instruction of regular army Of
fcers detailed for that purpose. But he
also says that the National Guard could
rot possibly provide the trained gunners
we should need in an emergency. General
Wingate is the president of the National
iuard Asspciation of the United States.
Condensihg and commencing his timely
paper on the subject the Army and Ma
Wy Journal says
Our defenseless condition is we'll known
abroad and if we have war it will be a
word and blow. with the blow a little
ahead. Twenty-nine thousand artillerists
are needed to provide one relief for the
Service of the guns which are to be
mounted in our forts and in war three
reliefs will be required. We want 1900
men for New York alone. We have now
1890 artillerymen for the whole United
States including light artillery. An in
crease to 1900 is the very least that can
be thought of.
Here is matter that should have the
attention (ennOrpsS
Expenditure for the countryS safety is
not waste, it is not extravaganza. 1t is
national insurance-the soundest and
wisest of investments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

According tolatest advices one dream
of the Canadian government seems
likely to end in a rude and unsatisfac-
tory awakening. The plan, or the hope,
has been to build a railway from Mani
toba north to the waters of Hudson
bay, and from there, during the brief
commodities to Europe. An expedition
was sent into those waters last spring
to investigate the feasibility of the
scheme. 1t has not returned yet or
made it's full report, but some geolo-
gists who started out with it have come
back bringing information as to it's for
tunes. AS late as July l the sealer
Diana found herself in pack ice on the
north side of the bay and only by good
management escaped being nipped.
The conclusions drawn from observa-
tions thus far made are by no means
encouraging to the proposed enterprise.
The seas and straits are navigable for
vessels of light draft during certain
months of the year. but there is more
doubt now than ever about there being
accommodation for freight vessels, es-
pecially those built of iron and steel.
Sealing steamers are built with special
reference to ice encounters, but grain
vessels are not, and it is doubtful
whether they could be. A full report
will be laid before the Canadian Par
lament at it's next session, but in the
meantime, according to present repre-
sensations, there is little danger that a
rival to our Atlantic ports will be es-
tablished in the waters of Hudson bay
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Japan has, according to Honolulu ad-
vices, consented to arbitrate all the
questions involved in the exclusion last
March of several hundred japanese i'm
Hawaiian soil. The Hawaiian govern-
ment at that time acted in the belief
that these people were in reality Japan
csc soldiers, provided by their own gov
eminent with just money enough to
carry them clear of the pauper exclu-
sion clause of the treaty. Last summer
Japan was willing to arbitrate every
point at issue save the bona fides of the
status of these men as immigrants, but
Hawaii refused to go before a tribunal
tongue Now Japan has consented
that there shall be norestriction placed
on the investigation by the arbitrators.
This is as it should be. If the arbitra-
tors find that the excluded people were
not Japanese soldiers, that they were
not provided with the requisite money
in sums nearly identical in each in
stance, the advantages of such a find
ing is with her. 1t is remarkable that
Japan should not have perceived this
advantage before this late day. Her
willingness to arbitrate now what she
was not willing to have even discussed
last summer, is by some attributed to
her belief that annexation will fail.
But that she believes that annexation
will succeed and that this vexatious
question will be in the courts in such
way as to make the United States heir
explanation
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Only one whale has been secured by
the Arctic fleet this summer. The
daring hunters who pursue the levia-
than away up beyond Behring Straits
have had their exposure and suffering
almost for nothing, and the Navarcl,,
one of the best of the ships. has been
lost, with 20 of her seamen. Such news
as this is calculated to give New Bed
ford fresh cause for gratitude that it
has not Of late years rested all it's
hopes in the uncertain ocean. But the
fortunes accumulated by the exploits
of the early whalemen have served as
a broad foundation for the city's pres
ent and larger wealth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
! Maine GOssfp.
Merry Autumn.

It's all a farce-these tales they tell
About the breeZes signing.
And means astir Ger field and dell,
Because the year is dying.
Such principles are most absurd
| care not who first taught en-
There's nothing known to beast or bird
To make a solemn autumn.
In solemn times. when grief holds sway,
With cOuntenance distressing.
You'll note the more of black and gray
Will then be used in dressing.
Now purple tints are all around:
The sky is blue and mellow:
And cen the grasses turn the ground
From modest green to yellow.
The seed burs all with laughter crack
On featherweed and jimsOn:
And leaves that should be dressed in blacl
Are all decked out in crimson.
A butterfly goes winging by:
A singing bird comes after:
And nature, all from earth to sky,
Is bubbling Ger with laughter.
Don't talk to me of solemn days
In autumnS time of splendOr,
Because the sun shows fewer rays,
And those grow slant and slender.
Why. it's the climax of the year
The highest time of living!
Till naturally its burning cheer
Just melts into thanksgiving.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

In recently published list of fam
Gus Harvard graduates the New York
Tribune includes as former Harvard
student the name of Chief Justice Full
Chief Justice Fuller took his full course
at Bowdoin. graduating in '53. A list
of Bowdoin's famous sons would con-
tain as many truly great names as any
college or university in the country can
boast,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Mr.. Stanley declares his belief that
the number of people killed annually IL;
central Africa twenty-five years ago
was not less than 100000. The bar
barous system of human sacrifice has
been largely extirpated, the destructive
raids of the slave traders have been
checked and more than 500 missions,
schools and churches are at work
spreading knowledge and Christianity.
There are still many spots where canni-
balism and rampant savagery exist but
as a whole this enormous area has been
brought under civilized authority.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
Miss Frances Willard remains at the

Miss Frances Willard remains at the
head of the w. c. T. u, having been
reelected in Toronto last week for the
18th year in succession. Miss Willard
is still the most prominent temperance
worker in the world, not excepting her
friend, Lady Henry Somerset, and it is
not at all strange that there should
never be any opposition to her holding
the presidency Of this powerful organi-
cation,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
After enjoying quite a lengthy perio

After enjoying quite a lengthy period
the Chicago aldermen are again to the
fore. This time it is not Doodle, but
simply the fact that one Of their num-
Der. during the progress of a barroom
braw1 last Sunday night. took it into
his head, with the aid of his teeth, to
remove the nose from the face of a
man with whom he had slight differ
ence of opinion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

The report that the strike fever has
spread to the students of the university
at Sioux Falls. South Dakota, who have
walked out Of the halls of learning un-
til the present president of that institu-
ton is removed. fills us with apprehen-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

VI With four American warships at
Honolulu and the Oregon at San Fran
cisco, Uncle Sam appears ready for any
little object lesson that may be needed
in the Pacific until annexation is
assured
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Spain seems to hint that she will try
THE right of search upon American
vessels. We believe a certain other
i European nation tried that game, some
years ago, but soon repented it's folly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Occasionally a little grim humor re-
lieves the tension of the mayOralty
campaign in New York. For instance
the spectacle of Richard Croker ex-
horting Tammany not to permit fraud
on election day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

The reports of foot ball games, prize
fights, Cuban warfare and Democratic
reading of the outrageous treatment of
prisoners in the Fort Sheridan guard
house, all in the name of military dis
cinline."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
cipline

Rev. DR.. Simpson, the Christian AL
lance king, who has a habit of taking
up 100000 collections, every now and
then. announces on authority that the
end of the world is right here. But he
keeps on passing around the hat, just
the same.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

sion as to what shall be done when the
members Of the infant schools go on
strikes because the recesses are not
long enough,or the instruction In words
of one syllable too protracted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

The postoffice department is consid-
er'ing the advisability of extending the
money order system to the small towns.
1t would be good idea The perfection
of the postal system implies equal ad-
vantages for city and town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

1t is evident that Gov. Pingree of
Michigan is not ambitious for more po-
ltical honors. He declares that the
girls in Venezuela, where he has re-
Gently been, are the prettiest and most
charming in the world