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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
a EIRsr RATTLE.

The EARLY Experiences Of q War-se@@
aoned Soldier.
An old soldier, who had seen servtcS
for many a year in the Crimea, India.
China, Africa and Egypt. was asked
one day in q London club whether he re-
membered the FIRST time wheE he vas
under fire.
Certainly" he replied. mo soldier
ever forgets that experience
ibid you feel like a hero at the
timer"
"No, indeed. It was Of the great
battles of the Crimea. I was q young
officer who had been run out Of the
military school ahead Of time to iii a
vacancy. / had hardly been in camp a
week before the regiment was ordered
to charge q Russian battery, which was
posted in q commanding position. We
went forward on the gallop through q
dense cloud OF smoke, swooped down
upon the battery, sabred the artillery
men. and captured the guns. We lost
many of our men, but It was q very bril-
liant charge. Yet there was az least
one hussar who acknowledged himself
to be a coward from beginning to end"
''Then you were terribly frightened
by your first battle?"
"Yes. that is the truth. / went ahead
with the others. but I was trembling
with fear and excitement / shut my
eyes and made no attempt to guide my
horse. l thought Of my good mother
at home, and wondered how / had ever
been so foolish as to think of the army,
when there were comfortable profess
sions like the ministry and the law,
which I might have followed.
''The charge occupied only q few
minutes, but it seemed an endless time
before we were behind those murderous
guns and had the at our
mercy. / was among the first to be with
them. and I staggered with my sabre,
while the horse rode down and killed a
gunner. But my heart was like a ball
Of ice. A greater coward lev scram-
bled over an entrenchment. All the
time I was repeating texts from the
Bible and sentences from the Lords
Prayer, and wishing myself thousands
Of miles away"
The veteran laughed heartily over his
"reminiscences Of his first battle.
1.-THE funniest part of i4," he added,
"was they considered it n great ex-
plot and insisted upon giving me 9
medal for my heroic and courageou.
conduct, when / was a white-faced
mean-spirited coward from first to last
and my horse did all the fighting fol
me, trampling the gunner under foot.
Probably the veteran exaggerated hi
boyish trepidation and panic. He coulC
have afforded to do so. for he was {
seasoned soldier whose courage and
even recklessness, were well known
but he was not far from the truth whe1
he declared that no soldier aver fell
like a hero when he was first under fire
YOUTHS Companion.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
pigerent names for waves.

They have curiously different names
for waves about the coast of Great Brit
ain. The Peterhead folks call the large
breakers that fall with a crash on the
beach by the grim name Of "Norrawa
Morway) carpenters" On the low Lin
colnshire coast, as on the southwestern
Atlantic fronting shore. Of these islands,
the grandly long unbroken waves are
known as rollers" Among East Ans
CLANS a heavy surf, tumbling in with an
cffshore wind, or in a calm, is called by
the expressive name Of a 'slog," while
a well-marked swell, rolling in inde-
pendently Of any blowing, is called a
"home.'' There is no wind" a Suffolk
fisherman will say. "but a nasty home
on the beach" Suffolk men also speak
of the "bark' of the surf, and a sea COW
cred with foam is spoken Of as feather
white" The foam itself is known as
spoon drift" So, in the veInacular,
we have it: 'The sea was all a feather
white with spoon drift."-N. 4. Marine
Journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
HARDY cRETANs.
shooting Their Predominant PanIaon
and they Do Not Restrain II.

Shooting Their Prcdomtnanf PaHIAon
and They Do Not Restrain Il,
Whatever faults the Cretans may
have, they are brave and hardy-Chris-
tians and Moslems alike. They support
life on anything, or almost nothing. for
an. indefinite time, und when the worst
comes to the worst die hard. They
have more lives than the proverbial cot,
and their r~ecuperatiye forces seem mex
haustible. A few days ago one Of them
was shot through the right lung, and
the doctor declared that five or six hours
WAS tho most he could live. That man
Is alive to-day, and takes his mishap as
coolly as if it were a corn OF collie. He
is not out of danger, but neither is he
wholly devoid Of hope. Now, the Chris
tian insurgents on the heights above
Malaxa are men of this type They sleep
out in the open, the intensity OF blue sea.
at their feet, and the dazzling, now
capped mountains behind them. Their
shelter is an olive tree, an inequality in
the ground, a stone, the remains Of a,
wall-anything that happens to be
available. There they lie perdue day
after day straining their marvellous vi
sion to catch sight of an incautious
Turk, and prepared to put a bullet
through the smallest extent of his per-
son which he may expose. They are all
remarkably good shots, equaled only by
the Swiss and the Beers. This is char
~acteristic of every Cretan, whatever his
age or religion. From childhood on
ward they practice rifle shooting inces.
sanity, and, however poor, always man
age to possess a rife and ammunition. a
Cretan would sell his immortal soul for
a gun or revolver, and would steal them
from his bosom friend without q pang Of
compunction. It is part of his nature.
During the present instruction I have
heard of several cases of Cretan Chris.
tians robbing their own comradcs-but
only of their guns, revolvers and cart
ridges, which is not a breach of any
of their commandments. Shooting is
their predominating passion, and they
rever attempt to restrain it. They
somehow bring it into harmony with
their creed, and therefore they lie, steal,
fight, kill and die with the conscience Oh
a saint-London Telegraph.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
No Tears for HIS Safety.

Mrs. Quiddle-I wonder what has be-
come of Johnl He went out early this
morning, and here it is most dark and |
haven't heard a word from him.
Mrs. Ra6dle-Do you really have fears
of his safety?
"Oh, I guess his safety's all right; but
I'm afraid he's fallen off the eonfounded
thing and broken his eg."-Boston
Transcript.
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Fared the king.

One day in a small church In Heidel-
berg, Germany, there entered the
church a plainly dressed man who took
a pew near the pulpit. Soon after a
naughty German lady swept up the
aisle, and. seeing the stranger in her
pew, ordered him to leave it. The man
promptly obeyed, taking n of the
seats reserved for the poor, and joining
devoutly in the the services. After the
services were over the lady's friends
gathered around her. and asked her if
she knew who it was she had treated
so rudely. mo, some impudent
stranger" she replied. at was King
Oscar of Sweden" was the answer. 'He
is here visiting the queen, who is an in
valid in charge of the doctors" The
naughty German lady is still looking
for a foot large enough to chastise her.
self with.-Every Where.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

HARDEST DAY.
day By 81 faeat,s ana Its
LnhoHs
Won 8et Be di ttlt Tor q great
by hos mothers to name the hard.
wof sy 81 the week, though
aIght be . shock to many
n Il Is not on blue
nrdAy, the scrull day
the put on Sunday, the day Of
3 many good, consci-
ktior Sc compelled to work
4 day IS regarded as a
least by help, and there
maids who are ready To
pr by preparing the neces
afy le Gay before. AS a rule
Sum for a much more elaborate
aga other day in the week,
|ane work must be done for
as the day in families without
ths e Of q servant.
Tor the lavish feasting oil
TINS Is that this is the only
gay when the goodman OF
Joy d dinner, or in some
neal. at home with all the
emily lreakfast is often a hur
Flea en d the morning, when the
spi'a sdll asleep II he is a man
q e4si he not often at home atth
M5 but away at his Office in
fanWn. If he is a farmer he
~ sly dimes with his men,
su bh4lsref uring the week eat
dir ~ a tar-away schoolhouse,
saturday. The afternoon
likely to be the only meal on
ays when the family all meet
round the board. There is
temptation to make Sunday
Yet when the tired house
lects that a rest day is or
as well as for the rest Of
II hight to forego this
tosAdeFifice herself in this
N ost contemptuous disbe.
ntH ledge that the command
1ich orders a rest day in seven
&o1 the oldest ordinances of civ
n and that it cannot be violated
endangering the physical we'll
the person who violates it. The
mt has been frequently tried
Men cannot work contin-
hything without a rest at least
ven days. The only person
npts this in an enlightened age
hse-mother, the variety OF
Ks make it possible for her to
) time til strain of her con-
york. Is strange that she
breaks don early from nerv-
ustion-a wreck when she
in the vigor of middle life?
been deprived of the seventh
demanded alike by religion and
one, the great prime minister,
sent interview, attributes his hale
to his scrupulous observance OF
a rest day. While lesser
Qowed the cares of their of.
TO trespass upon the day of rest
greatest of them all found time tc
ote Sunday to regular attendance al
frslip and to complete rest from al
of state. It is a good hygienic rule
ervous women or anyone 70 follow
hot make Sunday a feast day; yot
nat afford to put such a tax upo:
health. Let all the work that car
he toward the meals be done tht
fore. Reduce the work of Sunday
lmum, even if you follow thu
tan practice and dine on colo
3 not delay the bathing ant
IN of the children's clothes
lay-school until Sunday morn
Everything you can do the da,
Let a simple dinner be serveC
orning church and let that b
formal meal of the day. Tn,
and all the family will be justa
happy the nextday if they hav,
read7and-milk supper that the,
themselves at night. This sup
give the house-mother a chancl
long rest Sunday afternoon, an,
est Systematically taken will ad,
useful years to her life.-N. Y
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

you-a g o o d
enough for every
body. You see some
people go and git
religion, but when
they come back
they haven't got the
plain, o~ld-fashion
sort There are
more n~ew-fangled,
~high-fyin fool mo-
tions in regards to
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
ne Married the whole Family.

A lux 0AA4EEACN AAS NNAS
"As you will no doubts recollect,
Rufe. / never did make out like 1 had
more religion than the nan which built
ND the first church, Ben Chris went
on, in his plain. blunt way, Abut what
little / have got is natural and honest
and in line with the general govern
ment. The laws of the land and the
laws Of nature stand up agin the new
tangled religion which they have been
preachin over at old Rehobeth church,
and it is bound to go down to rack and
ruination in the due fullness of time.
.'Old man Hank Eddins and his wife
was the very first to take up with them
new preachers. They took 'em in at
their house. and give 'em their board
free gratis for nothin, and jest natural
" SKINNED the milk and fed 'em on
the cream. And then the mainest lead
ers in the fight for the new-fangled re-
lgion which finally at last split old
Rehobeth wide open and turned things
wrong side outards was old man
Hank and his wife. To me it want no
ways surprisin to see old man Hank
line up with that side, but I never
would of thought it in regards to his
better two-thirds. Well. I ruther ex-
pect the old lady has now got enough
of it, and some to spare, whilst old man
Hank no doubts feels like he took and
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

religion than a most anything else now
adays. Religion which makes a man
sorrowful and sad instid of joyous like
and glad amt worth pickin up in the
big road.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
8 HOME .oooklNo.

sen Peas - TOOfhsOme Roast of
SpRtmg Lnmb-Chicken Salad.
M Peas-Cover the peas with cold
u, season with salt, and boil till
Drain off the water and add
or four small pieces of butter;
be butter melt through the peas.
hem IN a vegetable dish and serve
hot If the peas are not sweet
gh sweeten them with a very little
Spring Lamb-Select the rib side of
Young lamb from the shoulder to the
Have the ribs split apart down
he meat part and trim them as for
1ench chops, being sure to Keep the
nat part we'll joined togeth&rn Stand
brace Of chops up on the meat end,
On the two ends together with skew
with the ribs standing up like a
eEown. Put it in q dripping pan and
lit II roast quickly, seasoned well with
salt and pepper. Put some small Ber-
d1uda potatoes next them in the oven
Ia pan with butter enough to brown
them nicely. When the lamb is done
place It in the center OF a hot platter
and fill the hollow Inside the crown
with potatoes, heaping them up pref
fly. Decorate the platter with sprigs
mint and quarters of lemon and serve
bic crown roast, slipping a rim OF
hinged gilt paper over the end of each
fb.
Chicken alad.-Cut thewhite meat Of
3 cold boiled chicken up fine; add hall
Is much chopped celery, put in a
salad bowl, and pour over a pint of may.
onnaise dressing. Garnish with eel.
cry tops and serve very cold-Chicagc
Tribune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
a Good Recommendation.

81 have an aching void the world can
never FILL" sighed Mr.. Percasie, after
Miss Mumm had rejected him.
Shave you tried adentist% asked Mr..
Clirgstone.-N. Y. World
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

bit OF q whole lot more than he will
ever worry down in peace and safety.
"You understand. RUFF. soon as ever
the Eddinses and their side whipped
the fight old man Hank didn't do q
blame thing but light out and pitch in
to practice what they preached. And
from that about the next news we got
the old ~silver-haired idiot had took the
bit in his teeth and married three more
wives. Say. Rufe. don't you remem-
Der that BARLEY generation Of people
-old man Luke BARLEY and his gang
which lived over there In the forks?
Well, three of them BARLEY women
Sukey and Nan and Shug-are still
with us in the flesh. They never had
got married so fur as know, and never
had any bright prospects to speak of.
They likewise also took up with the
new-fangled religion which played the
devil over at Rehobeth church. So it
come to pass on one of them bright and
beautiful spring days old man Hank
hooked up his mules and wagon, driv
over in the forks and married the Bart
ley women-all three at a pop-and
fetched EN- back home with him for
better or for worse. I hear that Misses
Eddins was ruther somewhat agin the
movement 1T the start, but old man
Hank quoted Scripture offhand SO fast
and furious till she at last give in and
told him he mought go on with the
good work and practice what they
preached. But when he returned back
home late that evenin with three new
wives the old lady had her doubts
about it and was pullin on the bits CON
siderable in her quiet, humble way.
And the storm ssBust LOoae.n
snow, that was on a Saturday, and
by Sunday night a most terrific big
storm had riz and bust loose over there
at the Eddins place. The women folks
had fell out and fused and finally at
last got into a rough-andAtumble, catch
as-cstch-can fight. From all the signs
and general appointments it is hard to
tell for certain who come out first and
second best. Old man Hank had went
off to tend a night meetin at the church,
and his various and sundry wives they
fit and fused and fused and fit till
he come home and indefinitely post
poned the performance.
But, at any rates, the BARLEY wom-
en- packed up their buds bright and
early next mornin and moved back
down in the forks. On that same day
the high sheriff come out with papers
of complainant and took old man Hank
to Jail o the general charge of too in
fernal much plurality in regard to his
wives.
"Old Misses Eddins has been sick abed
the past two weeks consequentially
from the storm which bust loose that
Sunday night, but she is still holdi1
things down at the home base. Wher
them BARLEY women moved back dow1
to the forks one of them was totin hel
LETT arm in a sling, whilst the othel
two didn't have enough hair left-botE
Of them put together-to plait one whiI
cracker.
Sand now, with old man Hank in the
county jail, and his wife in bed, and thu
BARLEY family laid up for repairs,
am leanin to the opinion that the new
tangled religion is bound to go. 1
mought work tolerable well in som,
furren country, Rute, but by gatlins i
won't hold water down there in tn,
old settlement, where human natur,
has been human since the flood rul
down, and men and women are flesh an,
blood till vet"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

husband in Wichita, Kan, sold his
wife for $50, and then lost the money at
faro. He wentto the purchaser and de-
handed sea more, and the man pitched
liIa out Of the house and the wife jeered
him.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10

I'm Italy there are more theaters In
proportion to the population than In
any other country.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
OLDTTME RELIGION.
Coed Enough for the Sage OF
Rocky Greek.
But the --latest style Turns Thingn
~Wrong side Outards"-Hank Ed
Nns MaFries the BARLEY Gener-
atiOn-LattIe Newt wfggins.

Plain, old-time religion Is good
enough for me-and good enough for
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-27
Fooled His Rival.

The Philadelphia Record tells this
story of trade war In order to
boom business an enterprising gro
GER on a certain day advertised sew
eral thousand 5 cent loaves of bread
for sale at 1 cent each. His rival
was in despair until a brilliant idea
came into his head He hired u
small army of boys and girls to buy
up all the loaves at 1 cent each. At
2 o'clock Grocer No. 1 had sold all
his bread, and those who came
later denounced him as fraud, who
had fooled them with lying adver-
tisement. Meanwhile the foxy gro
Ger around the corner, with more
than 1, 900 / cent lOaves stacked up
on his kitchen floor, put out big
sign: Fresh bread A 5 cent loaf
for 3 cents. We never advertise
what we have not got. = He thus not
only discounted his rival and turn
ed the tide in his own favor, but
made a profit on the bread as we'll
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-27
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Brief Points from Various. Sections of the
Great Badger State.

Brief Points from Various. Sections of the
Great Badger State.
The Modern WoOdmen will have q
picnic at Fond du Lac in July.
The German M. Z. conference closed
a three days session at Baraboo.
Steel rails will be laid on the ST. Paul
road between Ellis Junction and De-
pere.
John Levene and Rudolph KruegeC
were severely injured in a sawmill as
Portage.
A l4-year- old daughter Of Charles,
Caneman, living near HOrtonville, has
disappeared.
Rev. S. W. Eaton, D. D., and wife
celebrated their golden wedding annt-
versary at Roscoe, near Beloit.
Pat Haley, who started the row az
Marshfield in which one man was killed
and another wounded, received six
months in jail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-27
Letter Carriers.

The person of letter carrier is
sacred. You can no more assault it
with impunity than you can strike
a policeman. So if you have a
grudge against your letter carrier
don't try to take it out on him while
he is on duty. It may be vexatious
because a registered letter or a spe-
cia1 delivery letter is not delivered
at your door on the top floor of your
fiat, as you get a telegram or a
message from the hand of an A. D.
T. boy, but go down stairs gracious
ly and don't talk back New York
Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-27
A MOTHER KNOWS
some Things People Don't Think Of

Some Things People Don't Think Of
Just why it is that children at the
breakfast table will beg for a little cof-
fee day after day, / am unable to say,
except that they have deeply rooted
desire to have what their parents do in
the way of food and drink. Then L
believe they naturally like something
hot to sip with spoon. At any rate,
the demand is there, and I'm blest il i'd
isn't hard to get over, when one has
three or four in the family, but we
can't give our young folks coffee to
drink; everyone knows It's effect on chit
dren, and it seems almost criminal to
set before the innocents something we
know will harm them.
SO speaks thoughtful mother, and
to such the food coffee, Postum, comes
as blessing to solve the vexed ques-
ton.
DR.. Il. w Pierson, Medical Ad-
vance, 6351 Stewart Ave, Chicago,
says: We know OF your Postum, and
are very much pleased with it. De-
cldedly opposed to the use of both tea
and coffee"
Postum will pass for coffee with nine
out of ten people if they are not
warned in advance. 1t has the deep
seal brown of old Java, and changes to
the Itch golden brown Of thick Mocha
when cream is added 1t is made
wholly and entirely of pure grains Of
the field, wheat, etc, such as are in
tended by the Creator for mans use iu
this latitude. Postum, the health cof-
fee, can be drank as freely as water
without any Of the i'll effects Of coffee,
and in weeksor ten days time the old
coffee user will note amarked changeiu
his feelings and flesh. 1t makes red
blood in the natural way, and agrees
with babies or grown people. Made by
the Postum Cereal Co., Linn, of Battle
Greek, Mich.