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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-06-12

had a constant futter-
ing OF the heart and
severe paipitation and
pain in the left side.
She took three bottles
Of DR.. Miles New Heart
Cure and was complete
ly restored TO health.
and has not taken q
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-06-12
WHAT BAILEY
WOULD LIKE.

hfO0Ll| LA1NL'
Washington Post, March 5.
Representative Bailey of
Texas, who has returned from
Missouri and received the nom
nation of president at the
hands of Champ Clark stood
considerable good natured
chatting from his friends yes
ferday, as a result of Mr..
Clark's adrniring praise. Late
in the afternoon Mr.. Bailey
went over to the senate 81
IKE to come over here and
listen to the senators" he
said, Il consider this the great
est Legislative body in the
world. I have a desire to be-
come a member of the senate.
but / do not have any higher
ambition A man can make
a career in'the senate. | think
it is one of the best positions a
man can hold"
~How about the speakership. ="
asked Senator Marllory OF
Florida, by whom Mr.. Bailey
was sitting.
"Oh, yes; I should like to
serve one term as speaker, y
said Mr.. Bailey smiling, land
4 shall try to do SO,
he added, though the senate is
a greater place unless a man
should have exceptional OPP
portunities as speaker. !"
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-06-12
TWO THOUSAND
YEARS AGO
Times, Monterey, Mexico.

Times, Monterey Mexico.
Twelve leagues from the
station of Llano, in the district
of Magdatena, and to thesouth
of it over the mountains, there
IS a river bed in which is seen
a cut rock covered with Chi
aese inscriptions. 1t contains
ten lines of characters, which
are TO some extent buried in
the earth. A CInaaman who
lives IN Guaymas and who
speaks Spanish slightly, went
80 see this monument and took
a copy of the writing. He
says the monument was
wrought some twenty centuries
ago, as it contains the date
and a list Of Chinese names.
To. the northeast OF this place.
some FIVE leagues there IS a
saach called Los FEaros, and
aBous IS metres from the
Magdalena river, which runs
By. there IS a little hill on
which, IS built a Chinese wall
gsesing from the base to the
surnlls in spiral form Also
10 the north of Aiagdalena near
sEse mining region of Joioba
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-06-12
TURKEY REINFORCING.

New York. June s.-A spe-
eial to the Herald from Corfu
says:
M. Zamadoes, the war min
lister, is leaving Athens for
Lama. Turkey is still reinforc-
ing in Thessaly and the ambas-
sailors are demanding an ex-
PLANTATION of the porte:
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-06-12

wHEART DISEASE is durable. 1t ia not
"a surprising that all cases are not
cured. since no physician has made
the heart a special study for quarter OF
century as DR.. Miles has done. The follow
ing tribute from q physician viii be read
with interest. For six years prior to taking
Dr.. Miles New Heart Cure my wife was
terrible sufferer from heart disease. She
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-06-12
SHOW No SIGNS
GINS
OF YIELDING

London, June Sd dispatch
80 the Times from its Constan-
finople correspondents cores
pondent says the powers 10
whom Greece has inIrusted her
interests show no signs of yield
ing to any of the three points
in the Turkish demand. the an
nsxation OF Thessaly, the aboli
tioH of the capitula.ions in the
case of Greek subjects in the
Ottoman empire or an exorbi-
tant indemnify.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
MILLIONS ARE STARVING.
Famine and Plague Are Decimat-
ing India's Population.
Thousands of Poor Human Creatures Are
Dying by the Roadside, and Thousands
OF Others Are Killed by Loath-
some Disease
Especial Letter.l

No pen can picture the distress which
is at present prevailing in the famine
districts of India. Conservative esti-
mates place the number of people who
are already dependent on charity at
4~O,0Oo,OOO; and 5O,OO0,O 900 more will have
to be assisted before new crops can be
gathered in April. 1t was estimated
that the last great famine in India tls77-
Ss) swept off 100000 human beings.
The great calamity of 1s96-07 may
claim as many. Not until January 4
did the British government volunteer
an official ounceme of the exist
ence of the famine, thus preventing the
taking up of contributions in foreign
lands and materially adding to the hor-
% of the situation in the blighted
districts. Relief funds are now being
raised all i've the world and the British
government is doing heroic work to al
leviate the sufferings of the natives.
But the appearance of the bubonic
plague among the vast multitude of un-
fortunates threatens to increase the al
ready fearful death rate, t say nothing
of the ever-present danger that the ter
rible disease may be carried to Europe
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
THE w~ooDoocK's WHISTLE.

Thai Musical Sound Is Made by the
Birds Wings.
At various times during the last few
years l have read with much interest
discussions as to how the woodcock
makes his whistle, that delicious ripple
of MELODY so fascinating to the earEofi
h sportsman who hunts the shy and
handsome game bird. M
While shooting woodcock recentlysin
company with a friend this question was
discifssed, my friend at once ~asserverat-
ing that the whistle was made by 5the
birds wings and not through the bill
by the aid of the throat, at the same
time saying to me: when next youY
shoot a woodcock without ipjuring IFS.
wings and without killing it, simply.
Rmaking q bodj Shot sufficiently hard
to bring the bird to the ground, call
your dog TO heel, retrieve the bird your
self, hold him by the bill suspended in
the air at arms length, and in a 1utter.
ing to escape from your hand the whis-
tie will be made blythe birds wings
While shooting a few days later with
another friend | was fortunate enough
to make a body shot on a woodcock,
which came to the ground with the
wings unbroken. The dog caught the
bird, which had attempted to fly after
it struck the ground. Itooki it from the
dogs mouth and, seeing it's wings were
unbroken, determined to make the test
then and there.
After telling my friend what 1 was
about to do l held the bird by it's bill
at arms length and the result was that
it made the whistle three times, each
time, by executing a rotary movement
of the wings and body while fiuttering.
If any sportsman doubts this state.
ment l wish he would do as 1 have lone
and all doubt will be dispelled from his
Hnind as to how this enchanting whistle
is produced.-Forest and Stream.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL
Made Possible by the Grit OF Nash
vine's Citizens.
Thls Expedition Is the Only National
Event Of b Year 1s07-What
e Being Done to Make 1t
Successful
fsps0ial Nashville Tenn) Letter !

In many respects the Tennessee Cen
tennial and international exposition to
be held at Nashville, from May / to Dc
tober 80, this year, win serve as an APP
propriate demonstration Of patriotism
and enterprise upon the Threshold OF
q new century in the history OF the
state, and Of a new awakening ii the
south.
The cold Volunteer state" is for
tunate in the absence of any similar ma
tsonal attraction during the for,
tunate in the wealth of its
which are yet to be developed; fortun-
ate inthe central geographical position,
which makes Nashville the most ac-
cessible point in the south, and no less
fortunate in the spirit Of enterprise and
zeal of her citizens, who have made
This vast undertaking possible. Be
ing n Of the most highly favored
states in the union, in the great variety
of wealth of soil. hills and forests, the
materials for the essential features of
a great industrial exposition are found
within her own borders.
However, this is not to be merely a
display of commercial and industrial;
progress. History. education, art and
science are to have the preference in
the arrangement of the displays, and the
chief aim of the managers of the xpo
sition is to show the patriotism of the
people of Tennessee, to illustrate the
perfection of art, the progress of
science, the genius of invention, the
progress of civilization, and incidentally
to promote industrial and commercial
enterprise. 1t was fortunate for the
state that in and around Nashville were
found the men who had faith in the
outcome of an exposition pitched upon
so high aplane. And even here the most
faithful and sanguine friends of the
Centennial met with many discourage
ments, not only in the unEavorable con
dition of business throughout the coun-
try, but from the lethargy of the PEG.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
Heart Disease in a MOnkey.

A new monkey house was recently
erected in the Philadelphia zoo, and
the monkeys have been installed in
quarters that are said to excel anything
in that line anywhere. The keepers be-
lieye that monkeys understand human
language, otherwise they, are unable
to account for the excitement which
prevailed among the simians prior to
their removal For several days they
were very nervous, and on the day of
removal their excitement was almost
uncomfortable. When the hour ar
rived, a ~favorite monkey, and a splendid
specimen of his kind, was the first one
to be moved. All the other monkeys
betrayed the greatest agitation, and the
one being carried was so excited that
he expired in the keepers arms 1t
was a clear case of heart disease,
brought to a fatal termination by nerv-
GUS excitement.-Golden Days.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20

aud Ghe most central city, Is entitled %
the proud name Of the Athens Of the
South" Vanderbilt university IL per-
haps the leading educational i~nstitu-
ton, but there are a score Of other
noted universities. colleges and class
ical schools, aside from the splendid
public schools. Her commercial and
manufacturing interests are corre-
spondirgly notable. The 1000 whole
sale, jobbing and manufacturing es-
adjustments of the city are doing
$~10J,0o0,o0O worth of business annually.
the dry goods trade alone amounting 10
100000, and the grocery trade to So
100000 yearly. Sixty thousand spindles
are at work in her cotton mills, prodne-
ing 2O,OOO,000 yards annually, and FIVE
Touring mills + producing $500 bar
rels Of -four daily. 1t is estimated that
the population of Nashville, with her
suburbs, is 10000, while 100000 peo-
pie reside within a nights railroad ride
OF the place where the great Centennial
exhibition of 1897 is to be held. Stu.
ated in the heart of the rich and fertile
blue grass region of Tennessee, where
the lands are generally under q high
state Of cultivation, where the people
are endowed with unusual intelligence.
where the scenery is picturesque, and
the climate perfect any more suitable
location for a second worlds fair could
not have been found.
No other city in the state, and NO
other city Of the same population in
any state, could have found a more
beautiful spot for holding an exhibit
ton, or have furnished the facilities
for carrying the people to and from the
grounds. The park is dotted over with
shade trees, with q luxuriant growth of
blue grass, beautified by thousands of
e~vergreens, plants, shrubs and bloom
ing flowers. Artistically terraced and
divided by beautiful drives and walks
and charming lakes, and yet made still
more attractive and enchanting by the
erection of buildings which represent
art and history, science and education
in all things worth knowing, it now be-
comes a little city, that nestles languid-
" nnd happily amid the hills-a verb
table paradise, to which all the world
is invited to come and enjoy it's peace
full quietude while drinking at the
fountain of knowledge within its por-
tails. 1t is an ideal southern scene,
where the world may behold the en-
blems of peace, the perfection of art,
the progress of science, the evidences
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
schooL n cnunon.


Archbishop Fabre died IS Monltaaf
on December go He waa ID bic seYeu
tieth year.
Rev. A. A. Cameron, pastor 81 Cal,
vary Baptist church. Brooklyn, has
signed.
Rev. P. r. Williams, Of Montgomery,
Ala, has been called to the re~ctorahip0f
Trinity Episcopal church. Washington
The Roman Catholic bishops OF tls
province of Quebec having condemned
LElecteur, a newspaper Published IN
the city Of Quebee, the owner Of the pa-
per has decided to suspend the publicn-
lion. but viii appeal to Rome. The pa
reR's Offense, it is said, was TIE puhIiea-
zion Of a pamphlet denying d eriQhtof
the bishops to dictate to- electors ia po-
litical matters.
Mr.. w. J. ROlfe, the weIl-known
Shakespearean scholarin q letter to the
Month concerning Mr. Richardson's
article says: / have serious doubts
whether the explanation Of FalstaH's
habit Of quoting Scripture, though very
ingenious and plausible, is correct: but
$500 N4AC 2RaCC MEAC 10 &lNg MaE
reason for not accepting ii. The in
depreciation Of the old sinners death
bed differences however, seems 20 nue.
by far the best that has ever been eug-
gested, and ] shall be surprised II it is
not generally approved by Shakespeare
scholars and critics.
"A correspondent of the New York
Times suggests that the ministers OF
the United States ought to be PRO
tected." He says: "Let a law be passed
which shall make it obligatory upon
congress to buy the Of any
clergyman Of good standing in the
country who may present them at the
government Office. / shall not presume
to dictate how much my sermons and
those of my Acknowledgment may be
worth, but ! think l may, with due mod
esty, suggests that five dollars would
not be an e~xtravagant price to pay.
These sermons purchased by the gov
eminent should be sold to the highest
bidder"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
Electricity Astonisbea Him.

B-r-r-rup! The trolley car started of
with a jerk and the stranger from
Cohoes sat down with a snap. He got
up in a hurry, felt of himself anxious
ly, felt of the seat cu~riously, peered
under the seat inquisitively and looked
up the hole where the stovepipe used
to be ~vacantly.
"Wall, I swami" he said.
What's wrong?" asked the con-
ductor, with sympathy.
Wall, I'd like to know haow in COM
mon you heat that ere carp he
said.
"Tricity," said the conductor.
"Tricity. Ell? Wall, 1 swami Great
thing, that 'tricity, hain't it? Fust it
shoves you, then it lights you and now
it cooks you'll Anythin' else in the
'tricity line, young man?" - N. Y.
World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
THE MARKINGS OF MERCURY.

A-stronomers Diner MS to Their Exist
ence.
Herr Leo Bremen has just published
in a German periodical an ccou Of
observations of Mercury and Uranus,
made by him within the past few
months, which, so far at least as con-
Germs the former planet, are especially
interesting in view of the observations
of it recently made by Mr.. Percival LOVE-
ell, at Flagstaff, Ariz.
Herr Bremen arrives at a conclusion
respecting the rotation period of Mer-
curry wholly at variance with that
reached by Mr.. Lowell, and before him
by Schiaparelli. His observations are
illustrated by 20 drawings, and from
them he deduces a rotation period OF
from 80 to rs hours. Herr Bremen says
with regard to the longer period sug-
gested by Schiaparelli and supported
by Mr.. Lowell's observations, that he is
perfectly certain that a rotation OF
about three months-the planets or
bital periods out of the question, ? the
drawings indicating on single days a
forward movement of the spots. He
remarks further that there are "unmis-
taxable polar spots"
The markings seen by Bremen OPP
pears not to agree entirely with those
depicted by Schiaparelli, although
there would seem to be some general
resemblance between the two sets of
drawings. He finds that vogel's draw
ings prove the accuracy of his OBJ
servations and confirm his conclusion
as to the impossibility of a slow rota-
ton.
So this knotty question of long OF
short period of rotation would seem to
be still an open one. Inasmuch as the
astronomers disagree in their con
illusions, the u%nscientific general public
will be likely to.draw a conclusion of its
own, a pretty safe one, namely, that the
markings upon Mercury are exceeding
ly difficult to make out.
Uranus, which was observed on II
nights between April % and July 9,
last, Herr Bremen finds to present
'the dimmest spots he has ever seen on
a planet" His rough determination Of
the planets rotation period is about
eight hours. Prof. barnard, some two
or three years ago, was able to see with
the Lick telescope that Uranus is belted,
like Jupiter, but he did not venture to
assign to the planet a rotation period.
st, Louis Globe-Democrat
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20

pie throughout the state. But having
put their hands. to the work they went
forward, meeting all difficulties and
overcoming all obstacles until success
was assured. No other city in the coun-
try has ever accomplished so great a
work, unaided, and under such great
difficulties, and this fact is recognized
by other cities. The Buffalo Express,
in a full-page art supplement illustrat-
ing and describing the exposition, said:
'"This article would be incomplete
without a complimentary reference,
well deserved, to the city of Nashville,
which has assumed the chief burden of
this ambitious undertaking. Nashville
has fairly earned the proud cognomen
The Athens of the South With a
population of only 100000, at most, it
has ventured fearlessly into a field
where far more influential communities
have hitherto feared to tread. Think
of Buffalo undertaking such a labor of
love and assuming such a tremendous
financial responsibility. Without the
added attraction of an exposition Nash
vile is well worthy of a visit. 1t is an
admirably laid-out, favorably located
and excellently drained city with many
substantial business blocks and numer-
Gus handsome residences. A large
amount Of northern capital has been in
vested in it's development since the
war; and it is one of the largest, if
not actually the leading manufacturing
center of the SOUTH"
The wilderness of Tennessee reached
the dignity of statehood, June l, 1896.
It was the third state coming into the
union after the original 10, and in the
century which has passed since it's adj
mission, its institutions, many of which
have become famous, have been thor
oughly grounded, and its greatness and
stability have been firmly established.
Tennessee has furnished more than her
quota Of men for the highest office in
the gift of the American people, and her
statesmen and soldiers have won honor
on the battlefield and fame in the halls
of legislation, while others have won
distinction on the bench and at the
bar, and in professional, commercial
and public life. Her earlier citizens
won worldwide fame as volunteers in
the defense of the nations and there
by earned the distinction for Tennes-
see as the Volunteer State"
The characteristics of the early set
tiers Of the state, their high sense of
honor, devotion to principle, their brav-
cry and determination, tempered with
hospitality and intelligence, and I'M
hinching devotion to their country,
have descended to the present genera
ton, and to-day her best people are
found in the front ranks in the matter
of the arts and sciences, while the aver
age intelligence Of her citizens is in
ferior to 10 state in the union. There
are within her borders some of the most
famous educational institutions in the
country, which. with her efficient sys-
tenn Of public schools, provide for the
better education of the rising genera
ton.
Nashville. the capital of the state,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
NOISE OF BIG U N
Its Eject Upon Nervous Hens-The Farm
er's MournfuI Tale.

Its Eject Upon Nervous Hens-TheF Farm
er's MOurnfuI Tale.
The United States proving ground
at Indian Head, on the Potomac below
Washington, is in a shallow ravine, half
a mile or wide, and running back
for a mile or so from the government
wharf. Outside this depression, as the
tale is told by %veracious graduates Of
the naval academy who have been sta
toned at the post, there is a semi-cir-
cular belt some ten miles broad, where
chicken raising is impossible. Within
the ravine the ordinary hen of COM
merce lays eggs, and, if undisturbed in
her intentions Of ~domesticity, matches
them with only the usual vicissitudes to
which hens and eggs are subject. The
sharp, cracking bang of the big guns
that are fired at heavy armor plates day
after day does not disturb the process
Of incubation within the post. But the
farmers in the adjacent country, north,
east and south tell a unanimously
mournful tale of setting after set
ting of selected eggs that have gone
the malodorous way of eggs that are
set upon and not Matched. Not an egg
in all the belt, the farmers say, has de-
veloped a chicken since the proving
ground was established. This failure of
the eggs to do their duty is very nat
urally attributed by the farmers to the
firing of the big guns; the rural citi-
zens explain it by saying that the noise
makes the hens nervous" The officers
have worked it out to their satisfaction
that the fecundlty of eggs within the
depression and the lack of it in those
without are due to the strength of the
heavier sound waves that start from the
muzzles of the guns. The first impact
Of these really big waves, they say, is
well outside of the projecting hills
about the station. The noise of the
guns is far louder, they say, out beyond
the hills than it is inside the ravine,
with the guns right at hand. Outside,
where the sound waves bump the earth
hardest, they rattle the eggs into unpro-
ductivity. AS to main facts and as to
explanation, as was said above, this tale
rests wholly upon the ~veracity of men
trained to truthfulness in a school that
is supposed to hold the virtue of George
Washington above all others.-N. Y,
Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-20
THE RAsls oF oAgwNe euM.


1EYAS "a EO4A UAAAlAOm EOumUa LEOEA
q Mexican Tree.
-Four million pounds of gum chicle,
the product of the Mexican sapotatre
entered the United States during 1895.
This entire product, valued at nearly
%1,500,000, became the basis of chewing
gum.
A walk through a leading chewing
gum factory is interesting. Here over
1000, 0oO, GOO pieces of gum are annually
produced and shipped to every portion
Of the world. Three hundred employees
r engaged in the manufacture of the
gum, the first step of which is the impor-
tation of the raw chiele, which is gath
cred by poems in Mexico and exported
in bales, containing $50 pounds each.
The gum is taken from the bales and
chopped into small pieces. These are
freed of tree bark and chips by steam
ing, then ground in mills making 3,4O0
revolutions a minute. The ground gum
is subjected to a continuous heat of 14O
degrees Fahrenheit in drying rooms
From here the gum is sent to the
white aproned cook" who adds the
purest sugar and the freshest cream,
pepsln, powdered guru or
kola, or other desired ingredients to it,
and cooks it in a steam-jacketed caul-
dron, where it is turned and mixed By
an ingenious double-acting heater or
rotary paddle until it has assumed the
rconsistence of bread dough. Now the
dough boys take hold of it and knead
it in fine powdered sugar, passing it to
the rollers" where it is rolled between
teeL rollers until it is of the proper
thickness, when it is whisked off to the
markers" av,>.sf as ~.
The markers are steel-knived rollers,
which leave fheir impress onythe, long
sheets Of appetizing gum before it goes
son to the seasoning room" after which
it is broken on the lines left by the
markers. Now the gum finds its way~to
the wrapping room" The nimble
fingers of $50 dainty naidens are here
at play. Under their deft touch waxed
paper, tin foil and pretty wrappers en-
velop the gum quick as a wink, and in
another moment the packers have the
gum to place in jars or boxes, wherein
1T is shipped for sale to the general pub
observation-disclosures Journal.