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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

founce of gRlloon embroidery in a lace
pattern SO arranged as to simulate a
long overskirt caught up behind. The
silk blouse was of a darker, richer tint
than the skirt, and was made with a
bertha of the embroidery used upon the
skirt. Sleeves only a trifle full upon the
shoulders, a belt of reddish brown rib
bon knotted to the left of the waist, a
little boa of mink fur and a mite OF a
turbanlike hat with trimming of brown
paradise bird plumes, made a toilette re-
markable for its effective simplicity in
this city of famboyant display.
A gown of dark green silk, with skirt
laid in fine knife plaits from wrist to
hem. Over a chemisette of white nous
seine de sole opened a bolero Of rose
pink velvet against the surface of which
paler pink roses appeared as if showing
from below. A spider web of white
gauze covered the flower figures and
gave a pretty effect of novelty. A belt
of white ribbons, a boa of black ostrich
feathers, a black velvet hat trimmed
with roses and adark green silk parasol
supplied the needed accessories.
A silk dress in very large plaids Of
green and brown, penciled with ruby
lines and plainly made except for y
standing collar of ruby velvet. Over
it was worn a mantle Of green cloth,
short in the back, but with long ends
in front, reaching nearly to the ground.
This mantle was cut low and round in
the neck; hereabouts ''decollete' APP
Flies to wraps as well as gowns. TWAS
open in front and on the shoulders and
was belted at the waist with ruby rib
bons. 1t was embroidered all about in
black silk and fastened with brande.
burgs and fanciful buttons. A capete
in rose velvet crowned a dark face with
extremely heavy eyebrows.
Skirt Of green velvet, with bolero
jacket of the same material. The
jacket had front and back each in n
piece, and opened under the arms.
Flaring epaulettes Of plated taffeta
made wings upon the shoulders and a
deep collar Of rich embroidery merged
at the neck into a ruche of green tai.
feta. The green felt hat was covered
with black plumes.
At Nice women wear short gloves be-
cause their sleeves. are SO long and
tight; but of these, and of indoor and
evening dress, much must wait to be
told. ELLEN OSBORN.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
Fad for Monogram rams.

The monogram fan bids fair to be.
come quite a fad. It is really a pretty
fancy, and can be, made into a much
priced souvenir, Get a fan with a plain,
smooth back body" and then besiege
your friends and acquaintance with
requests for their seals, crests, notices
and monographs. Or you can cut these
from notes and letters. Trim them
carefully and paste them smoothly on
the fan, taking care not to let them
come in the folds" The entire fan
may be SO carefully and evenly covered
that the background win be hidden.
Do your FASTING carefully, and sea how
artistiaauy You san arrange your trt
Phies.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

JinksI would have been run nveE
on Broadway to-day If it had not been
for Winks, who was with me. BE
sprang forward and showered flows
on the horses heads with an umbrella,
Just as the umbrella broke, the team
stopped, and I was pulled out from
beneath the wheels.
Blinks-Did the umbrella have a sl-
yer handle like a shepherds crook7
II didn't notice particularly, and, be-
sides, he broke it all to pieces stopping
the team. Why?"
@He borrowed mine yesterday."-N.
Y. Weekly.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
THE OLD AND THE NEW TERROR.


Apiece Of the Original Graft Hidden Away
Somewhere In the Present MonltOr.
It is known generally that the moni-
tor Terror, which has just gone intO
commission, has been building for q
score Of years. The same Is true of the
other monitors, Puritan, Monadnocle
and Amplitude. The Miantonolnoh,
which went into commission about two
years ago, was also started at the same
time that the others were laid down.
That was in 1874 and in 1878.
This group of monitors represents q
different grade Of vessel from that for
which they were intended originally.
The delay in finishing them has result
cd in making them modern. They are
BOW unsurpassed In their fighting quail
tiles. They have modern guns, modern
armor, modern engines and twin crews.
These ships have been built and rebuilt.
To convert them into fighting machines
of an advanced type it has been neces-
sary to rebuild them under the guise
OF REPAIRS" It is believed generally
that the Terror has never been in COM
mission until recently. The executive
OAASEA Va uhC ACAIOI SuIpTlScU Ills IudUCS
in the wardroom the other day by say
ing:
do you know, / once sailed into Ha-
vana harbor on this very ship. That is
to say, the Terror was in commission
when l was q young officer and 1 was
attached to her. This is supposed to
be the same vessel. It is a new shin
instead Gfi1l fhara ro,,sk 10 -
piece Of the old ship in this one. She
has been completely rebuilt under the
repairs system. Some day I'm going
to try to hunt around and see if I can
find that piece of the original vessel.
u must be here somewhere, but I ven
ture to say it will be many moons be-
fore we find tn. Y. Sun.
In the Louisville city court the other
day there was a negress with red hair.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

The Football player YVES struggling
Dter his examination paper. He passed
his hand over his brow and gazed at
the ceiling.
Il WISH" he said m~ournfully, az the
pen dropped frem his hands.
"What do you wishP' inquired the
professor, who happened to be pass
ing.
Il wish" was the answers In tones of
dOll-blue melancholy, shat my mem
cry were as long as my hair."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

Housewife-Mrs. Gass says she disr
charged you because she frequeattg.
caught you listening at the doors.
Applicant-Well, now, mum
Housewife-Well, I'll engage yoa onl
one condition. You'll have to tell me
everything you overheard at Mrs. Glass;
-Tit-Bits.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

Tommy had been suffering from .
lame back for q day or two and his
mother bought a porous plaster for the
same and prepared to adjust it. AsthO
eyes Of little Mabel fell upon the pune
tured square, she exclaimed: 'Oh.
mammal What are all the holes fort"
II know" INTERCEPTED TommV
they're for lettin' the pain out."-
Richmond Dispatch.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
A Doubtful ComplIment.

eyes," said the Chicago literary wom-
an, Il intend to leave my footprints on
the sands of time. In future ages some
wanderer may discover them and take
heart"
II feel SUR that he will find them."-
N. Y. World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
rhe Retort Conrteoua.

DawsOn-What is your business, may
I askY
Boorish Stranger-rm a gentleman,
air. That's my business.
Dawson-Ahi you failed, 1 see.-Odds
and Ends.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
roo N u for Him.

Daughter-George says he fears he
can't support me in the style I'm ac-
customed to.
The Father-Marry him, anyhow. l
can't keep it up much longer myself
Town Topics.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
why He Was Decreased

Somehow" he said, disconsolately,
II don't seem ter make farmin' pay"
"Maybe you haven't the right way
"Yes; I've done everything. I've
tended meetin's an fined clubs an
voted fur every candidate tibet said he
knowed the way ter hep us along. But
it don't seem ter do no good, an 1 mus
say I'm gettin' clean discouraged."-
Washington Star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

Mrs. Witherby-Last night the man
next door made an awful mistake. He
got into our house instead of his OWE.
and / thought at first it was you.
Witherby-Yes, / met him on the
street this morning and he said no
never wa 10 sorry for any man in hin
hfe.-N, Y, Truth.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

Parke-I can remember before / was
married that 1 was tired Of everything
utterly blase.
Lnne-Things r different now?
II should say so; now it's a real pleas
are to go to the club.'-Brooklyn Life.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

$50" said the composer, Indignantly;
"that writer has the im~psrtinence to
say that my music is reminiscent"
That's what has happened" the
manager replied.
"Well, you may tell him for me that
my music is quite as original as hfs
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
stung to the quick.

'HeDry, you look very pale. What's
the troEble2"
"1 was stung to the quick by an adj
der this afternoon
"How did it happen?"
"Why, l dropped in at the bank, ANA
the booKkeeper told me my accouna
was ovezdrawn.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
Sure Presentiment,

Eau revOirl" plaintively murmured
the young poet, as he dropped the latest
effort OF his muse into the mail box.
It was a poem entitled: "My Pet
Cat" and it came back.-Chicago Trib-
une,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
Toned Down

"Mrs. Thatcher has red hair. hasn'S
she?'
"Well, she would have, but, you see,
her father is a banker, and that makes
it auburn."-Chicago Record.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
Missed Each h

Mrs. Gadd (who spent last summer On
her aunt's farm)-I did not meet yOu at
any Of the summer resorts, Mrs. Gabh.
Mrs Gabb (who summered on her
%uncle's farm)-No-o; and, by the waN.
/ don't remember meeting you in PariA
IN. Y. Weekly.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
SIN Another Twist.

Lives of Ca~illionaires remind US
That most laws we can evade,
And departing leave behind us
Creditors who'll meier be paid.
IN. Y. Truth.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
Hurricane HOlds Enc Reeord.

1t is said that a hurricane holds the
best time record for M mile, covering
the distance in half a minute. Then q
balloon has done the mile in 40 seconds.
The third place is held by a railway en-
CINE in 1887 seconds.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
OF Two EvHls.

Nobbsie, the Office Boy-There's q
man downstairs says he's gOin' to kin
yer, and a beautiful young lady as
wants ter go on der stage.
Manager-Of two evils-well, show
the man up.-Bay City Chat.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

It is said by scientific men that the
hair from the tail of the horse is the
strongest single animal thread Aaown.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
To Be Encouraged.
Jeer not It tn

Jeer not 1t the bald-headed man at the
play,
Nor the front row, where long he has sat.
Far better a pate hat is not In the way
Than the plumes of a theater hat.
-Washington Star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

JOhnny-Mr. Lighthead, my sister
treats you better than she does me.
Mr.. Lighthead-Why do you think
SO, Johnny?
JOHNNY heard her tell ma she gives
you lots of tafTy, but she never gives me
any.-N. Y. Herald,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
So He SAYS.

In the street-auction jeweler there We will
find
The alchemist mentioned OF old;
Mid cheap, trashy trinkets OF every known
kind,
Everything that he touches is gold.
Il. A. w, Bulletin.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

In the Louisville city court the other
day there was a negress with red hair.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19
A Ten Years Wanderer Through
the Wilderness.

tho Wilderness.
Ten years ago the past August I re-
ceived partial sun stroke which
three months after resulted in a two
years sickness with malarial fever.
When first taken sick my weight was
210a pounds, in six months it was ia.
l tried all kinds of remedies to stop
the disesse without good results.
Finally the DR.. said, 81 will meet a
poison with poison" He CON-
menced to dope me with the strong
est drugs in use. got strength, got
back some of my flesh. After I got
out about my business I thought. I
would stop taking medicine. Then I
found out was a: slave and must
plod on-bound physically and men
tally, constantly under a cloud. For
ten years I wandered on in that dark,
horrid state, not kno wing, not caring
when l might take an over dose and
end my misery. I could not work, 1
could not think, the cursed drug had
me bound with its anaconda grip,
each week taking another coil around
me. January LIST my family all came
home; they surrounded me and said,
now was the accepted time to get
cured. January 9Th, l boarded the
cars for Atlanta, Ga. Just then my
son handed me letter from DR. Davis
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

Of Lansing, in answer to inquiries in
which he said he could cure me. I
changed my route, landed here at
Lancing, January 9th. COMMENCED
his treatment January 10th ut 4
o'clock and in four days l lost so
pounds of poison and flesh. 1 bid
my enemy good bye January 10th at
6 O'Clock a. m. 1 passed through the
wilderness in 2 days and came out in
the bright light of returning health
and strength. carried the drug in
my pocket the first three days to test
my courage and manhood. Thank
God it st God the test. I will say that
anybody suffering with any disease
or habit can get cured at DIR. Davis
Sanitarium. The DIR. is perfect
gentleman, very kind and attentive
to his patients His wife is lady of
wide experience who knows just
what to do and the time to do it to
make those with them feel at home
and contented. In fact all of the
conveniences and surroundings of the
Dr.'s home is SO pleasant, cheerful
and home-like that the afflicted ones
look with regret to the time when
the DR.. says, thou art healed, go
home" 1 will further say the DR.. IS
treatment is mild, painless, rapid,
cheap, and he does not use the hypo.
dermic syringe in any case.
s. G. CLARK,
Fayette, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19
Dissolution Of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the CO.
partnership existing between H. H.
Husselman and Libbie Miller under
the firm name of Husselman & Miller,
is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent. And all of the property of said
firm has been sold and conveyedto H.
Husselman of Usage, Mitchell county
Iowa, who will pay all debts of said
firm and collect all accounts due said
firm.
Dated at Cresco, Iowa, this 4th day
of February, 1897.
H. H. HUssELMANN,
LIBBIE MILLER,
H. HUssELMANN.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

Suppose the present-soon to be-
newly inaugurated republican admin
istration of national affairs, should
bring about restoration of silver
coinage to the status it occupied prior
to 1873, and that within the next two
or four years, what would the then
lone advocates of "Silver" then do,
''poor thingsp" do, poor
things" Farmers Advocate.
Well. suppose it does. Then the
reform party can take up the advocacy
of other reforms, land, transportation,
and telegraph. We are ashamed OF
the men who think they will be out of
a job when one of the reforms they ad-
vocate has been endorsed by the oppo-
sitlon, and enacted into law.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

OF the greater purchasing power of
the dollar.
During the recent political cam
phign q person who stated what the
Supreme court of Minnesota has ju-
dicially decided and affirmed was
hooted and scoffed as the veriest idi-
OF or demagogue of the land, not only
from the most able and talented of
these orators and press supporting
Mr.. Mckinley, but by the lowest
whelps of the kennel. And by the
way the Minnesota Supreme court is q
republican body of Judges which has
decided that the purchasing power of
the dollar has increased whatever the
statesmen and financiers may say to
the contrary.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19
II the Theory is Correct Extend its
Operation.

In johnson VS. st. Paul City Ry.,
decided in the Supreme Court of
Minnesota, January 10, 1897, in a case
where the plaintiff had obtained
judgment of $4,000 against the street
railway, the Supreme court found all
the facts of negligence and injury
just as found by the jury and though
the court held that the damages were
not excessive they were cut down to
$2500, based upon the following reas-
oning Of the court:
There is another consideration
which we think we may take into &C.
count, and that is that, however
statesmen and financiers may disa-
gree as to the cause, given sum Of
money has greater value-that il,
greater purchasing power-than it
had Years ago. Decisions may be
found, probably including some of
our own, which would By COMPARE
son, justify the size of this verdict.
But our conclusion is that it is so
clearly excessive that it ought not to
stand.
"Ordered that new trial be grant
Gu, unless Wltnln nrCeen days AFTER
q remittitur is filed in the District
court, the plaintiff files her consent
that the verdict be reduced to $25OO,
in which case the order appealed
from is affirmed and judgment may
be entered on the verdict as thus
rendered"
II the theory upon which this de-
cision is based is correct, why not
extend its operation to judgments
upon notes, mortgages and accounts.
1t is as equally true of them az of this
judgment for damages that the purch-
asing power of the dollar has increas-
ed, and may just as properly and just
~ be cut in two.
Street car fares too, might also just
as properly be cut in two, because
the nickel now will buy more of ev-
cry thing than it would short time
since. Railroad fares come under the
same general rule and they too could
be just as properly reduced be cause
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19
The Annual Assessment.

The assessors of the state will be
making their rounds among the tax
payers for the next few weeks, and
while the property consisting of
farms. houses and lots, horses, cattle
and other domestic animals, vehicles,
musical instruments and the like will
be in plain sight to the assessor, there
is a vast amount of moneys, credits
and stocks that will seek to keep out
OF sight, and without more than or
binary vigilance on the part of the
assessors will remain under cover.
The stock of banking associations,
under the statute, is assessed to the
bank which pays the tax levy Instead
of the stockholders. Other stocks
are assessed to the individual owner,
and unless SO assessed escape taxa
ton. Of this class is the stock of the
Alliance Mercantile Association
which returns dividends annually of
over 20 per cent and should be as
sessed at their face. The assessors of
the several townships of the county
and of Winnesheik adjacent to Cres-
co, should inform themselves about
the amount of such stock liable to as
sessment in their respective towns
and who are the owners thereof and
see that is assessed. There are quite
number of persons in this place and
OF Vernon Springs township,
several in New Oregon, who have
considerable snms of money loaned
at interest, the larger part of which
will escape taxation unless the ASSESS
ors take more than ordinary pains to
find 1T. There is nothing so we'll able
to pay taxes as money, which yields
a profit of interest every year, every
dollar of which commands prem
ium, while the farms and it's herd of
domestic animals make but slim re.
turns, and the crops grown return
but little above the labor cost which
produces them. And yet the taxes
upon the two-year-old steers of the
state are more than twice that upon
all the moneys and credits returned
. by all the banking institutions and
all the money lenders in Iowa.
There are inequalities in assessment
which ought not to exist. It is shown
by tables prepared that the rich
mans home valued at $4,000 may be
assessed at but $4,000, one-sixth of its
value while the poor mans home in
the same block, valued at $1,000, may
be assessed at $4OO, one-third it's
value, and twice as high in proper
tion as the $4,000 residence. The as
sessable value of real estate in Iowa
in 1870 was 1922, 1874, OOs, in 1895 $685.
916,916, an increase of $3.50, 762, 9Os or
nearly 100 per cent. The assessable
value of all the personal property in
the year 1870 was 81, 1871, 191 and in
1895 800, 493. 479, an increare of $685.
522,2S8, less than thirty per cent. This
includes every species of personal
property, moneys and credits, the
principal part being of farms, the
moneys and credits which are largely
in excess of the personal property of
farmers escaping taxation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

There is an aroma of whitewash
about the legislatures Investigations,
that may result, next winter, in a
brand new legislature with long whis-
kers and inexperienced airs but a
marked desire for whole lot of legis-
lation.-Des Moines News.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19
Our Life.

The two chief sources to which for
eign observers look for manifestations
of our civilization and progress are our
press and our public men. This, says
writerin Century, must be the case with
every nation. Are these two reflections
of our national life such always as to
command high respect for our general
culture, our self-restraint our high
minded sense of justice. our broad con-
ception of international obligations?
1t has been said that every nation has
the kind of press that it deserves, that
its newspapers reflect the tastes and
mirror the intellectual standards of its
people, We cannot expect to be made
an exception in the general Judgment
of the world; and if many of our great
Journals place trivialities, scandal
and crime in most conspicuous posi-
uon in their columns, thus assuming
that American readers like that kind Of
news best of all, how can we complain
when foreign observers accept the as
sumption as accurate? If some of our
statesmen and politicians assume
habitually bullying tone of contempt
for foreign opinion. if they habitually
make light of expert knowledge, ex-
press contempt for trained intelligence,
treat such grave matters as the public
credit and national honor with indif.
ference. how can we complain if foreign
observers say that as people we care
little for all those things?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

The Emmetsburg Reporter a couple
of weeks ago told of three good horses
selling at a $1.33 per head. Now
comes the Spirit Lake Beacon with a
report that a turkey gobbler weighing
thirty pounds brought $2.4O.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

Theodore A. Havemeyer tells a
trust Investigating committee that he
wouldn't go into business if he
couldn't make Is or 20 per cent, in it..
Isn't the sugar trust one OF those in
FAINT industries still clamoring for
more protection. It's stock is only
$74 100000, and 20 per cent, on that
sum is $14,800,00O.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

Mrs. Lucretia Estey, who had atleast
one eccentric idea, died at Head of the
Bay, Rockland, Me-, recently, at the age
of 101, and left to the nurse who had
cared for her during her last illness o
jar of butter which she had had in her
trunk for 81 years. The butter looked
well, thank you, remarks facetious
contemporary.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-19

The scheme to assess property at
its actual value and reduce the levy
is in the interest of the men who own
money, stocks and securities, unless
at the same time some means can be
devised to discover moneys and cred
its that are hidden. Farms and do
nestle animals would pay larger
proportion of the taxes than now, as
no more moneys and credits are like:
ly to be discovered while the less tax
levy would lessen the taxes upon
that species of property known as
moneys and credits.