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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24
SEEN ON PRIvArE VIEW.

That thn newest aprons for children are
trimmed with blind embroidery and TUCK
Ing. :.
lace insertion and ribbon. to nlatcn Inc
prevailing tone Of the room.
That table linens are exqu'sitely hne ana
elaborahely trimmed with this most eSpen-
sive laces.
That Russian embroidery Is now the
craze for lunch cloths, etc. II Is a'tracuSe'
though too heavy 10 be dainty.
That gauze and all lis kindred are
eagerly sought for evening dresses.
That the new silver pieces for table
use are Of beautiful design and WORKMAN
ship.
That lace and let picture hats are load
ed with ostrich feathers, and will be worn
all winter.
That all manner Of fr,lls aud fnrbelows
. will be much worn during the coming vim
/ ter.
That the new papers are wonderfully
pretty and not overly expensive
That the new CACHES are very odd, apl
will "set off the evening dresses to per-
lection.
That the new lapel watches are attract
| ing many buyers. They are said to keep
perfect time.
That the newest caps TO- infants ere
very dainty, with their lace trimming Of
Ipoin d'esprit.
That the odd little coats designed for
| this winter are exceeding ely pretty when
made of deep red cloth and trimmed with
fur.
That all mothers ar, delighted to know
that the sensible cashmere is again con-
sidered stylish for children's dresses.
That few more frostr days will tTing
out all the bright colors on the park
trees and make ride OF The park trolley
one 20 be remembered during the long
| winter DAYS.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Miss Minnye Daniel. who has been WIS.,
iting In Houston for several months rost.
has returned to her home In Illinois. leav-
ing many frIcnde To regret her departure.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Weiss: sideboard, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J.
Weiss; book case, Mr.. n. A. Weiss; bed
spread, Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Weiss, Jr.; one
silver sugar bowl and twelve spoons, Mr..
and Mrs. A. j. Weiss; silver tea service,
r. w. Heitmapn G. Co.; silver water set,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Seelhoret; chenille table
cloth and lace bed set, Mr.. and Mrs. Helm.
stedt; one set silver tea spoons, Mr. Henry
Weiss one rug. Mr.. II. ii. Wittig. Calves
ton; one set silver forks, Mr.. and Mrs. ii.
Marwitz. Galveston; set silver tea spoons,
Mr.. h. Schneider. Galveston; silver berry
spoons, Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. o. Stein. Calves
ton; set silver tea spoons, Mr.. and Mrs. ]
r. Gross, Galveston; silver card receiver
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G.. HUBBLE, Galveston; set
silver tea spoons, Mr.. H. Kleinecker. Jr..
Galveston; one china tea set and china din
ner set. Mrs. p Flock, Drummer addition.
linen able-cloth and napkins, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Bohn, Austin: one glass stand
lamp, Mrs. Henry SchmiGs: one china card
receiver, Miss Gertie Role; one cut-glass
bowl, Miss Viola Wileman; one willow
rocker. Mrs. A. Stude; linen towels Mrs
b. Meyer; one pair vases, Miss Edna
Flock. Drummer addition; one rug, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. II. Morgan; table cloth and nap
kns. Mrs. Augusta Pitt and Miss L
Kleinecke; one glass water set. Mr.. and
Mrs. c. T. Maurice, Drummer addition;
chenille and linen table cloth and napkins
cutglass fruit bowl, Mr. Stanley Crabb
Dallas: one rug. Mr. and Mrs w. II. Muel-
Ter. Galveston; one laundry basket, George
Elsbury.
On Monday night at Turner Hall, under
the auspices OF the Houston Turnyerein,
| an excellent entertainment by the Ariel
Ladies' Sextette viii be given. This is the
| first OF the five attractions to be given by
| the Turnverein this season.
| Following Is the programme for Mon
| day night.
| "Daybreak". ...... go. Peuret
Misses Marie, Jeanette, Olive and Grace.
| Mae Marguerite.
Vulntet ,....'..'... 1919. ..... .Geibel
| Misses May Jeanette, Olive, Marguerite
and Grace.
solo-'The Jewel Song" from Faust
| ..''....' 1900. ............. .Gounod
! Miss Gertrude.
sextette-"E studiantina" ....., L.acome
The Smith Sisters.
| Solo-"Never Again" .......... Sullivan
Miss Grace.
Intermission.
Chorus--"The Lost Child" Sullivan,
Smith Sisters.
pue'-- me Gypsles, .'....-..... Brahms
Misses Gertrude and Grace.
Ise"uihS ''.'''...... ...,.. Mae marguerite
Quartette-"Dutch Lullaby" ....., Macy
Misses Marie, Jeanette Olive and Grace
soio'.''... ........... 49,. Miss. Gertrude
Chorus-"Good Night" BucI,
| Smith Sisters.
The Rosebud Social club will give a bal
next Tuesday at Saengerbund Hall.
One of the most enjoyable balls in the
history Of the place was given Wednesday
night last at Crosby. at the residence Of
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Mr. and NM. ). Il. Martin, and nice sup
nrr wae served and excellent music was
furnished BY Professor McCracken's panq
Iist OF those present: Mr.. and Ms. ;:
L. Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hair, MT. ana
Mrs. William Martin, Mesers. J. J: NC
Craclen, Thomas White. Alva Mckinney,
Oabe Mckinney, L. Cook. 20 Mhier' saAe
Tom THOMPSON. L. Nelson, Charles Tom
iinroo and Wagner; Misses Addie- White,
Cora Martin. Ollie Miller Dora Martin,
Mamie johnson and Miss Hair.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Diphtheria at Marlin.
Marlin, Texas, October 22.-Twu cases OF
diphtheria reported in Marlin today.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Pensions for Texans.
Issue of October Z:
Original--James G. Calvin, Fort Worth.
Supplemental--Timot Sullivan, Albany.
Restoration (reissue, special October ~
Leonard Scott, San Antonio.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Mrs. n. Hcnke and daughter. Leona.
have returned to their home in this city.
after a pleasant visit to Denver. Colo.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Mrs. b. Cochran Moore Of Beaumont 10
In the city, tho guest OF Judge and Mrs.
j. M. Lmbocker Of Houston Heights.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24

Mu. r. 8. Turner announces the mar
riage Of her daughter. Susie, to Mr.. T.
Frank Lewis, on Wednesday, November 3.
No cards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

restore the remainder, thus making wages
what they were under the Mckinley tariff
At the Chicago conference they offered to
restore the scale in effect before the Wilson
bill was passed, making an increase from
the present scale of Is per cent. in addition
to the increase of last fall. This PROPOSE
ton was refused by the workmen's commit
tee who demanded an increase of % per
cent. over the present scale, which would
be about 10 per cent more than the Nc
Kinley scale. In addition to this. the work
men presented set of working rules which
the manufacturers regarded as dictatorial
and Objectionable. The result of the confer
ence was d failure to agree
Glass works are always shut down at this
season of the year. and under any circum-
stances they would not open before the
middle or the latter part of September.
There is time enough yet for the manufac-
turers and workmen to come to agree
ment on a wage scale, and it is to be hoped
they may do so. The window-glass indus
try in this State is a large one, and it would
be unfortunate to have its revival under
the new tariff bill delayed by a strike. A
glass scale of wages is almost as difficult
to understand as the sugar schedule, with
its differentals etc, so the Journal is I'M
able to determine which is nearest right,
the manufacturers or the workmen. The
Journal believes in high wages and would
be glad to see adopted a scale as high as
the business will bear, but there should be
a limit to the demand for increase. The
proposition of the manufacturers to in
crease the present scale, already increased
once, by Is per cent, thus practically re-
storing the scale under the Mckinley tariff,
looks on it's face like a fair one. The work
men ought to remember that the manufac-
turers have been in hard lines for the last
three years and are not in the best condi-
ton to adopt the highest wage scale at
once. It would seem that a restoration of
the scale in force under the Mckinley tariff
ought to be satisfactory to the workmen
until business shall improve sufficiently to
justify a further increase.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

threats Of destroying the italian quarter
IN Paris and driving its inhabitants from
President Carnot had gone 10 Lyons to
attend the industrial exposition. The city
had deeked itself In gay attire In honor
or MS visit. On the day OF the murder ne
tlon and was TO have attended a banquet
IN MS honor that evening. He had just en-
tered carriage with the mayor of Lyons
to be driven from the exposition when
Santo rushed past the guard. An
eHQFt 10 stop him created a COM
motion which attracted the attention of the
people so that many saw him strike the ia
tal bioW. The dying President was carried
lnto the nan and the most skillful physi-
clans tried every way to stop the flow OF
blood. but the wound was fatal and he
died six hours later Every place of busi-
ness and amusement was closed and draped
with signs Of mourning. The remains were
Of June 70, and they lay in state in the
Palais dEysee. The people ambassadors
and representatives of foreign powers paid
their respect TO the dead statesman. Santo
was beheaded by the guil6tine Aug Is.
Alexander ii, grandfather of the present
Car of Russia, was assassinated Sunday,
March 81. 1881 AS he was returning to MS
palace from "A review of the troops two
bombs were hurled at him. The first de-
molshed the carriage, but did not injure the
Car. AS he disentangled himself from the
wreckag sc a second bomb was thrown which
tore off his legs at the knees. He lived
1t was no longer ago than April % that
an attempt was made upon the life of King
Humbert of Italy. lie had been in attend
ance at an italian Derby and was on his
way to the royal palace when a man named
Acciarito jumped upon the carriage steps
and struck "a the Kings breast with Il dag
ger. 1t was repetition or Santos method
of making way with Carnot. The King,
however warded off the blow by striking
Acciarito's wrist and was not hurt. Guards
placed him under arrest before he could do
anything further. Acciarito is now serving
a seven years Imprisonment for his crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14
THE GLASS WAGE SCALE.

a few days ago. commenting on the de-
mand of the glass workers for an increase
of wages under the new tariff. the Journal
said that, without knowing exactly what
their demand was, IF the new tariff law
makes any material increase in the profits
of the glass business the workmen should
get a fair share of the increase" Since
then there has been a conference at Chica-
go between a committee of the Window
Glass Workers Association and the manu-
facturers. and they failed to come to an
agreement on the subject of wages. Until
this conference was held the manufacturers
had been unable to learn what the workers
would consider fair Increase and when
the scale was presented the manufacturers
decided that they could not pay it. After
the enactment of the Wilson tariff a new
scale of wages was adopted with a reduc~
ton of 2212 per cent. Last fall. after the
election of Mckinley. the manufacturers
restored d part of the reduction and prom
ised, if good tariff bill were passed. to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

The unmistakable signs of returning
prosperity continue to multiply. The bust
ness Of the clearing house cities of the
country for the week ending July 30 showed
an increase of % per cent. over the same
week in 1896; the week ending Aug 6
showed an increase of IS per cent. over
the same week in 1896. and the week end
ing yesterday shows an increase of nearly
So per cent. over the same week of last
year. 1t is safe to say that the smaller
cities which transact their business with
out the aid of clearing houses, are sharing
in the gain. The business of the week
which closed yesterday exceeded by $153,-
100000 the volume of transactions in the
corresponding week of the prosperous year
1909
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14
A REVIVED SCANDAL.

1t is very strange that such thoroughly
business administration that of Mayor
Taggart is proclaimed to be could not have
made a contract for a police telegraphic
system without pursuing a course that has
involved the Board of Safety in a scan
dial. That such has been the result there
can be no doubt. A few weeks ago COM
mittee of the Council started out to inves-
tigate the amount of the contract. When
it had shown that one complainant was
unreliable it turned the whole matter over
to the grand jury and ended the investiga-
ton 1t took no steps to ascertain if there
had been favoritism or if th'eN price paid
was too high-the only two important fea-
lures involved in a real investigation. When
a person who had made some statements
not affecting the letting of the contract.
but charging that a member of the Council
had said that it would cost a certain amount
of money to obtain the contract confessed
that he had not told the truth, the Council
committee assumed that the denial disposed
of the general charges and the gossip
which had been circulated relative to the
letting of the contract. THUS it will be
seen that the Council committee never en-
tered upon its real duties.
The whole matter could have been hushed
up by the excellent but superserviceable
clerk of the board had not Councilman De-
war freed his mind about the almost for
gotten scandal in yesterdays Journal. OF
course, it will be said that Mr.. Dewar is
a sorehead or a crank, or something of the
g doc Of
meet the grave charges which Councilman
Dewar has made. member of the Coun-
Gil bearing the Endorsement of a majority
of a ward, member of one branch of the
Taggart party. his distinct statement is that
the award of the contract for the police
telegraph was a "big grab game" that
the telegraph contracted for will cost the
city SIS, 900 more than another system equal
ly as good could have been obtained for,
and that the system purchased is imperfect.
Either these CHARGES are true they
are not. The presumption is that a coun-
Gilman of the mayors party would not have
made them did he not believe them to be
true A member of the Council and of the
majority party, the Council can scarcely
ignore his direct and damaging charges. If
it shall do so, it confesses to the city that
it suspects their truth. Furthermore, if the
Board of Safety simply replies, or its god
father, it's clerk simply gives the press one
of his adroit denials. the conviction will
gain ground that the board or its clerk who
runs it fears to have such an impartial III
vestigation, with open doors, as took place
under the Denny administration upon mere
gossip. The Council owes it to itself to see
that the committee takes up the investiga-
ton which it ordered and pursues it to a
conclusion It should call upon Councilman
Dewar to back his statements with evil
dence If it does not, the Council will be
regarded as shielding the Board of Public
Safety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14
MADE BY 4 BLACKSMITH.
Tncoma's Early Money Wasn't Pretty,
but 1t Answered Every PupOse.
Tacoma Ledger

Tacoma Ledger
Tacoma once had mint that coined all
the money in circulation where the City OF
Destiny now stands, and it did not require
the fiat of Uncle Sam. the silver of Idaho or
the gold of California to make the pieces
from Tacoma's mint pass current among
the Indians and the few hardy pioneers
that were blazing the path of civilization
through the forest on the shores OF Com
mencement bay
Back in the early '70s the Tacoma Mail
Company. not being able TO handily secure
gold and silver for use in trading with and
paving off the Indian laborerS and early
settlers. hit upon the novel plan OF issuing
their own currency, and to this end set
their blacksmith TO work to fashion for
of money or rather tokens, which could be
used as u circulating medium. The prices
consisted of forty and forty-fiVe-cent iron
tokens and brass one-dollar pieces. Inc
forty-cent pieces We're about an inch IN
diameter and the forty-five-cent pieces
half dollar. The one-dOllar pieces were
oval in shape, about an inch and quarter
long an inch wide and a sixteenth of an
inch in thickness. These pieces were
stamped with the figures showing their val
ne. and readily passed current all over the
country tributary TO the mill. Nearly all
of this old milf coin has passed away,
but few days ago William Hanson. of the
Tacoma Mill Company. presented set or
these queer coins TO the Ferry Museum In
his letter he said:
The honesty of the people and the alb
sence of any blacksmith shop save that or
the company made the use of this money
possible"
Oregon has long hoasted that the 'Bea-
Ver' coin minted at Oregon city In the
early SOS. was The only money minted In
the Northwest in the days of the pioneers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

likely to see a great influx of merchants
from the territory tributary to them. The
same will be true to degree of all business
centers, though those which do the most
"hustling' will get the largest part of the
trade. These excursions are indicative at
once of returning prosperity and new bust
ness methods. They show that merchants
and buyers throughout the country are pre-
pairing to join in the march of prosperity.
and they show that under the new order of
things cities are not going to wait for bust
ness to come to them but are going after it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

The sending of the Indiana to be docked
at Halifax has some redeemlng features.
1t is somewhat humiliating to have to send
one of our battle ships to a foreign port
to be locked and cleaned, but it is due
to a condition of things that will not last
long and will never happen again. Mean
while, it is pleasant to learn that the In
diana is exciting great admiration at Hall
fax that the British war ships in that port
have shown her exceptional honors and
that the officers and crews of the United
States and British ships are fraternizing in
a very friendly way. The Indiana is adj
mitted by all to be the finest battle ship
ever seen at Halifax, and it viii not hurt
Canadians to know that we have two sis
ter ships of hers in commission and half
a dozen bigger ones either built or build
ing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

Those persons who declare that they are
"debarred from any participation in the
government" because they cannot get office
are misnformed. Every man who has the
comes through the government participates
in it's benefits in the best sense. If no per-
sons participate in the benefits of govern
ment except those who hold office then
only about 100000 people have any interest
in maintaining it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

a wild and weird organization in Wash
mgton calling itself the Silver Dollar
League has issued a circular asking inves-
tors to cooperate in the purchase of forty
tons of silver to be offered to the mints
for free coinage. If the minis refuse it they
are to be mandamused under an old law
providing for the free coinage of silver
which it is claimed has never been repealed.
The circular says among other things
This thing is far more profitable and in
initely safer than the Klondike gold find.
The price of silver bullion is about 50 cents
per ounce, and the profit on UC0,OU ounces,
or 50 0O0 mounds or 40 tons of silver bullion
laid down al the United States mint at Dem
yer. Col, will be $7000 600 for the parties who
will help us to start and finish the fight on
the above lines of action
Some of the free silver fanatics in this
city ought to get III on the ground floor of
this scheme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14
VACATION SCHOOLS.
They Work Well in New YOrI-Their
Methods.
". H. Tolman, in Review OF Reviews.

w. II. roman, III REVIEW OF reviews.
A vacation school is not a novel idea.
but new adaptation has been successfully
maintained in New York in the last four
years. In this latter sense. the vacation
school is the utilization of one or more of
the public-schOol buildings for the summer
recreation and education of those children
who will voluntarily attend. This educa-
t1onal combination was realized in 1894 by
William W. Locke, who laid the plan be-
fore the department of schools and lnsti-
buttons of the New York Association for
Improving the Condition of the Poor. The
department approved the scheme, and at
once requested of the Bpard of Education
the use of three of the public school build
ings. The reputation of the association was
a guarantee of the character of the move
ment, and its pledge of 5000 for the eX-
pense led the board to grant it's request
The term is six weeks, beginning the
second week in July, the school hours from
to u each day, except Saturday. The
schools are selected among the sections
where the population Is the most cOngested,
for the sake of reaching those children
most in need of the advantages of a Va
cation school Thousands of children sim
ply exist in the tenements during the heat
OF the summer and the earliest morning
finds them in the streets, their only play
ground, although, thanks to the asphalt
and street-cleaning department., the
streets are now a pretty good playground
With these thoughts in mind, the asSOcia-
ton planned to open the cool and airy
rooms of the public school buildings for
the boys and girls Of the tenements. They
came. At one school, 80 was the upper
limit on the very Iirst morning of regis
tratiOn there were 800 in line
Children are admitted from five to fifteen
years of age corresponding in grade from
the kindergarten to the first grammar. No
textbooks are used, but the exercises are
so planned that what is best in the boy
or girl is drawn out. For example, the en-
tire school meets in the large assembly
room for the opening exercises, of which
singing is a large part. The principal may
select some central thought for the day
around which may be grouped songs and
rotations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

making the total value of the crop 1921, 49,
value $376.S75,0oO Aug. 10. price 7S12 cents,
fetal value $392563.OOO; Aug IL, price 8l12
cents, total value $4O7 10000; Aug. T. Sl2
cents, total value $422, 500.0 600 This shows
gain for the farmers of $15,OOO,0O0 in one
day, of S45,625,0O0 in one week of 800 600
in six weeks. and of nearly $20O,0o0000 in
one year. This beats gold mining out of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

OIIIUdSU I VoI'
will you dine with me, monsieur"
How soon? l have an engagement to
fight duel in an hour"
Say, in an hour and a half, then And
should be glad to have the company of
your seconds and your antagonist also"
4 will extend your invitation to him aft
err the duel and doubtless we will both be
thnrn >,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

The foreign demand for wheat will affect
the price and call for 100 G00,010 bushels III
excess of the ordinary demand. That event
however, will not start the factories and
workshops. whose activity is essential to
the general prosperity which the country
now feels
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

Now that the Democratic alderman in
Chicago who declared that prominent citi-
zen tried to bride him has been doomed to
Jail for contempt of court because ne Will
not reveal the name of the alleged bribe1
to the grand jury it is believed that he told
the truth, and, further, that he accepted
the bribe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-14

The reports from Cuba seem to indicate
that Weyler has been compelled to seek
safety for the remnant of his army inside
the intrenchments of Havana If this IS
the case. it will have been demonstrated
that Spain cannot suppress the insurrec-
ton. II remains to be seen what Spain
will or can do under such conditions.