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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-07
independent. Carr, Memphis.

Memphis. Tenn. January 6.---Joseph J.
Williams. independent democrat, was to-
day elected mayor Of Memphis over Hon.
Lucas Clapp the preEent incumbent, BY a
majority OF about 500 votes The entire
independent ticket also carried By d re-
duced majority. The campaign has been
an exciting one.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-07
WEATHER REFORMATION.
Last Nights Readings.

The barometer is highest over Western Ten
nessee. with reading of a0,Sa inches at
Memphis Tho barometer is relatively low
from Nebraska TO Eastern Minnesota. with
the lowest reported readng--30 iuches--at st.
Paul and North Platte The weather is
partly cloudy from Western Nebraska to
Northwestern Texas, partly cloudy at Mont
gomery cloudy at Jacksonville and ATLANTA,
and clear elsewhere. Atlanta is the only sta
ton reporting rainfall in excess of 10 of an
inch.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-07
General observations.

OBSERVATIONS taken BY the United State,
weather bureau at s p. M. seventy NTH me-
adian time:
Evening star., 1898-07-23

lot of the men who weren't at the bath
houses in time to capture swimming suits
SWooped down upon good-natured civilians
and got old trousers and outing shirts and
rigged out for swimming in this gear.
There Were some crack swimmers among
the soldiers. and many others who couldn' t
swim a lick These latter got ducked in
deep water, scared out of humor for the
time being, and found no way of getting
back at their tormentors except by chuck
ing pebbles and stones at the good swim
mers. 1t was all in good part. About
twenty Of the soldiers started out from the
pier for long swim. They were closely
followed by a pair Of little girls who SWAN
like dolphins.
You children better go back" yelled
some of the soldiers to the little ones after
they had swan about quarter OF mile
You might get drowned"
The little girls went the whole distance
with them, however, and the soldiers
couldn't make enough of them when they
reached the beach after the long swim.
Unmixed Sport.
The soldiers captured all of the fat-bot-
toned boats stranded on the beach, and,
with the good-natured acquiescence of the
owners, foated them, man-handled the
non-swimmers and filed them into the
boats, and then sculled them out TO deep
water. Then they threw the timid nom
swimmers into the flood and picked them
out again, and got themselves punched for
1t by their irate comrades, whom they
would knock out of the boats again
One of the non-swimmerS, who kept
Closely TO the beach, was seen to stand M
straight and ponder.
I'm due to get pension out of this, all
Evening star., 1898-07-23

shii so Salt water. They enjoyed them
selves and they got their moneys worth.
ne excursion was one delirious whirl of
JOY Tor all hands, from the moment the
steamer pulled out Of her slip, an hour be-
fofe government clerks reached their desks
until she nosed into it again late at night.
The soldiers had practically the entire boat
to themselves, but there was no disorder
10 amount to anything. The men took so
deep an interest in the historical scenes on
either side of the river that they gave the
steamboat tremendous list, now to STAR
board and now to port, in rushing tither
ana thither from one rail to the ether to
take in the views pointe, out to them, but
the ballast roustabouts down below got in
their work in trimming ship with the bal
last barrels, and the boat was on an even
keel most of the time. The few cases of
blfilng that took place aft on the lower
deck We're child's play, and the chief dam
age done to the Differs consisted in the
ripping of their collars when they were
yanked apart by peace preservers of their
own outfits. The soldiers who took the
doWn-the-riFer trip declared when it was
over that they had had more fun than they
Evening star., 1898-07-23

ington, a sort of hush fell upon them as
they leaned over the SIDE watching the tor
pedo removing operations. But it was not
the hush of fear. 1t was the hush of mem
ory.
''They didn't get any kind of a show for
1t at all. did they. those fellows on the
Maine?' was a question that went up and
down the rail. Just bing! and up they
went! Oh, well, they're being squared
they're getting hunk" etc.
Passing Mt. Vernon.
The tolling of the steamers bell as the
boat passed Mt. Vernon puzzled all of the
men, until 1t was explained to them Then
they made affectionately irreverent re-
marks about the father of his country-re-
marks such as only Americans are permit
ted by Americans to make
Understand the old gentleman liked a
high ball or so occasionally" said one.
HE wouldn't have spoken the language
of our tribe If he hadn't" was the answer.
Must ha' been kind o. lonesome for
George on that bluff said another.
.'Oh. don't know" was the reply. HE
in punches for game of penny ANTE every
once in a while After he'd won all their
money and filled 'em up, he'd load 'em onto
ox-carts and send them back to their PLAN
tatfons. George wasn't always writing
farewell addresses and constitutions and
declarations of independence and all that,
you know. He enjoyed life. and he knew
when to knock off for a bat around"
The river resorts on the Maryland side in
terested the soldiers on account of the pref
ty groups of organdied girls who crowded
the slopes and piers to watch the boat go
by.
Hey, there, you mani yelled a hundred
Evening star., 1898-07-23
Fun on the Boat,

Pretty big skift amt she?" said some of
them They examined the machinery criti-
cally, and they did not look completely sat
was made. Then they concluded, appar-
entity that the boat was built to Ego a
route" as horsemen say of racers of great
endurance, and they looked easier. Two
or three of them became so brave that they
their name for it-above the hurricane deck
that swings the paddles around but the
steamboat hands vetoed this proposition
a very large number of the soldiers con-
cluded that the only comfortable part of q
steamboat is OH the top of the paddle
boxes, and these had to be snaked off the
paddle boxes by nor-commissioned officers,
at the request of the steamboat officials
in squads and platoons. There was no OBJ
lection on the part of the steamboat hands
to the soldiers trips around the wheel
shaft running the beam width of the lower
deck, but the chief engineer didn't espe-
cially like it. Half a dozen soldiers at a
time taking circular rides on a wheel shaft
can diminish the horse power manufac-
tured by steam quite appreciably, but there
was scarcely any danger in the game for
the soldiers. and the steamboat folks want
ed the boys in blue to get even a little
mere than was coming to them.
Quite few of the soldiers actually sat
down for as much as ten minutes at time
during the five-hour trip down to the Beach,
and two of them were observed to remain
seated for whole half hour at a stretch.
A very great majority of the men kept on
the go, fore and aft, and abeam and
athwart, right along from the start to the
finish When the boat reached the vicin-
age of the mined waters, near Fort Wash
Evening star., 1898-07-23

of the hit and miss order. The gold that
could be gotten out without the aid of
machinery has been pretty well worked
by the Indians and Spaniards. The fact
that no fine gold is found l consider an
evidence that there must be somewhere
very rich quartz lodges
The Tfpuani Gold Region.
There are a number of Americans here
who axe about to start to the Tipuani
CTip-oo-wah-ne) gold fields. A Mr.. Yost
and his wife from Denver recently ar
rived. and two young Ohio men, Messrs.
Scott and Rathbun of Lima. who represent
the Deshlers and other capitalists of Co.
lumbus, are now there prospecting. The
most important undertaking in this coun-
try is that of a Denver syndicate in the
charge of e. S. and C. T. Wilson of Den
yer, from whom l get the following infor-
nation: The syndicate has a concession OF
seven miles along the bed of the Tipuani
river, and it has had a powerful dredge
constructed with which it can dredge the
river bed to depth of forty feet and to
bed rock. The dredge was made al Denver
and was tested there. 1t was constructed
so that il could be sent here in pieces, aud
it is now being taken into the gold region
on the backs of mules and Indians. The
whole dredge weighs eight tons, but no sec
ton of it weighs more than 125 pounds,
seventy-hve pounds. The cost of getting
the dredge from Denver to the mine will
be more than $4,000. 1t took more than
six months 10 get it here, and its journey
on to the mine is attended with all sorts
OF dangers. 1t has to go over high noun
tain passes, to be carried along the edges
of precipices. In some places llamas will
transport 1t and al others men will have
10 DO the work This machine has ca
pacity of 200 yards of gravel a day II
VIII be put in the river and will excavate
pits to bed rock, the gravel coming UP be-
ing washed upon the dredge The bed
rock will be swept and scraped by men In
diving suits. and the prospects are that a
vast amount OF gold will be secured. The
iipuant river is one of the most famous
OF the Bolivian gold streams 1t was work.
ed IN the days cf the Incas, and the Span
!druS la nave had large amounts from it.
Inc Ilpuanl Is a rushing stream 300 feet
"Iue' lylhS on the eastern side of Cordil-
Iera' ABOUT two weeks travel from La
Paz- The river flows into the Maperi and
thence into the Beni in which its waters
ind their way to the Amazon. In the
Evening star., 1898-07-23
From Tit Bits.


Belgian artist. one of Watteau's stu
dents - Caesar Ducornet - was handless,
having been born without arms. and with
only rudimentary legs, and Yet he carried
of all the prizes at Lille, won golden
medals in Paris and had pictures in the
Louvre He used to hold the palette with
one foot stump and use the brush with the
other. A slender scaffold was built I'm
front of his easel, and on this he wrtthed
and twisted, climbed and crouched leay-
ing traces Of color wherever he passed,
traversing the canvas with the swiftness
of fly upon the wall. Antwerp had an
artist who copied the masterpieces OF
Rubens, and yet had no hands. All his
work was done with his toes, and so well
did he paint that his pictures fetched a
higher price for their artistic merit than
these of any other artist in the city The
handless painter, Mr.. Bartram Hiles at
the age Of sixteen had exhibited his first
picture at the Bristol Academy, and sue
ceeded in winning the national scholarship
of the value of f100 for two years He
both paints and models with his mouth.
Herr Adam Stepen of New York is an
other armess artist who guides the brush
es with his toes. The young Swiss artist,
lates her crayon in a wonderful manner
with her right foot. A German lady,
known as the foot artist" Cbecause arm
less and painting with her feet, four years
ago married a professional singer. The
wedding ring was placed on her fourth
toe, and she signed the register with her
foot.
Evening star., 1898-07-23

right" said he. rehectively. srve stepped
on a contact mine. and it's taken of my
legs, III bet two bits.p
Then he walked Nth difficulty to tha
beach and let one of his swaddles pull or
the two husky sea nettles that had wrap
ped themselves around his legs and numbed
them. The swimmers misadventures wi.h
crabs were numerous, but they found a
use for the crabs that clung TO them by
picking them OF and suddenly placing them
on the bare necks OF their intimate and un-
suspecting friends.
The soldiers found a way Of becoming
acquainted with the young women sum-
mering DOWN at the Beach-al properly
introduced by the proprietors Of the pub
lie establishments, of course. But there
were not enough girls to go around. and 50
in the dancing pavilion many of the SOL
diers had to double up among themselves
for dancing. They got along all right this
way after a bit of practice. except that all
of the soldiers wanted to be the man"
and at first made hash of the business Of
being the girl
Full of History,
One of the young officers, who had prob
ably read up on the thing before start
ing on the excursion, made a little speech
to his companions.
This place around here. boys" said he,
lis just full of history. George Washing
ton was born right over the way, at Wake
field; Monroe, the old boy that got up the
Monroe doctrine, first happened right back
or here. and the Lees and a whole lot OF
other warm people who've got their names
planted in the school books made this neck
OF the woods their stamping ground from
uhe ume they first saw the light. More
Evening star., 1898-07-23

OLIVIA AND PERU
are among the rich
Test mineral regions
of the world. Bolivia
has produced more
t h a n 81. 900. 900, 900
worth of silver. She
now stands third
among the silver-pro-
ducing countries, and
If what American
mining prospectors
here tell me is true,
she bids fair to soon
come to the front as
Evening star., 1898-07-23
ing the mine with one hydraulic, but they
could think thirty with profit

ing the mine with one hydraulic, but they
could, / think, use thirty with profit.
There are other valuable gold mines"
continued Mr.. Bellows, t.just across the line
in Bolivia. AT Suchez, just east Of Poto,
and at the same altitude, there are placers
which at times pay $4,000 a month and
produce gold that is 963 fine. supposed to be
the finest gold of the world. These mines
were worked for $50 years by the Span
iards. but -hey are now in the hands of
Messrs. Penie and Gibson, two young En-
river with 130-foot fall, which gives them
force for their hydraulic. In their sluce
boxes are pavements of cobble stones in
which the gold falls, and they collect the
fine gold with quicksilver. They have got
ten some nuggets Weighing as much as
three ounces. Above Poto there is another
good mine. 1t is known as the Potorosa.
l. is situated on the side of a mountain
1900 feet high 1t Is in litigation,
but the people who have possession have
been making a good thing out of it, and
they ship great deal of gold to Europe to
be smelted.
Not a Poor Mans Country.
fear that some of the statements in this
letter may lead Americans without capital
to come to South America to prospect.
should most earnestly advise such to stay
at home. This is not poor mans coun-
try in any sense of the word. There is no
chance at all for the man without capital.
and there is no chance for the man out Of
money to make money by his muscle in
competition with these Indians, who live
like dogs and will work for about twenty
cents of our money per day. Many of them
Evening star., 1898-07-23

had any right to have, considering how the
fellows down below''-the campaigning
soldiers down in the Indies, they meant
were faring.
A number Of the soldiers had never be-
fore been aboard any kind of a boat not
propelled by hand. These were men Who
had passed their lives in the land-locked
interior. They regarded the steamer with
just soupcon of suspicion when they first
boarded her
Evening star., 1898-07-23
Has It. Good Point..

From the Indianapolis Journal.
Weary Watkins: with all your gab you
got to admit that religion has its good
points"
Hungry Higgins: "welI. that there idea
OF no work on Sunday is good as fur as 1t
gees"
Evening star., 1898-07-23
A Sacred Concert.

From the New York Weekly.
Mrs. Billson Sunday EVENING" Cant
You go to prayer meeting with me to-
night?"
Mr.. Billson Impossible my dear I
promised Jimson that would go with him
to a sacred concert"
We'll, I'll go there with YOU"
"Um-I believe ladies are not admitted. I"
Evening star., 1898-07-23
A DAY ON The RIVER
Such a Lot of Fun These Soldiers
Did Have.
MADE THINGS LIVELY ON THE BOAT
Were Doughty Warriors When
Armed With Knife and Fork.
SWIMMING AND FISHING
SWIMMING AND FISHING
A STEAMBOAT LOAD
~ of soldiers from
AN Camp Alger went

Nohfp AA6 - "NAAt
down to Colonial
Beach a few days
ago. They went just
for fun. 1t doesn't
matter what regi-
ment or regiments
they belonged to.
There was a sizable
battalion of them.
Probably not more
than a third Of them
had ver before
Evening star., 1898-07-23

Mr. Spouter: IAN heirloom, Johnnie, is
something that's handed down from father
to son.
Little Johnnie: ''Huhi That's a funny
name for pants.''--Judgs.
Evening star., 1898-07-23
MINES OF BOLIVIA
The Whole Country is Rich in Silver
and Gold.
QUARTZ LEDGEO OF THE FUTURE
Some Investments in Which Ameri-
cans are Interested
40 CHANCE FOR POOR MEN

tpccial Correspondent, Of The Evening Star.
tCppTright. 1895, by Frank G.. Carpenter.l
LA PAZ. Bolivia, June II, 1898.
Evening star., 1898-07-23

A philosopher is a man who, having dis
covered that 2t2=4, makes a noise about it.
Life.
Evening star., 1898-07-23

! over, Thackeray, that English fellow who
wrote the book about Becky Sharp locat-
ed another book of his. The Nirginians
right on this stretch of sand that you see
| here. Therefore, You want to all feel sort
o solemn and historical for a little while
out of respect to the memories OF the swell
boys In our annals who used to throw
rocks at jellyfsh along here. What do you
say If we give the whole dead and gone
lot of them three good ones and tiger to
boot7"
The young officer had collected quite Il
little crowd by this time, and the soldiers
responded to his suggestion with an en-
thusfasm that made people some distance
away fancy that some unfortunate COM
pany butt was being thrown up in a blan-
ket
When the steamboat gave its three nro-
me nitory blasts to warn the soldiers to
assemble aboard for the return trip the
boys who had captured fat boats and gone
way out in the river a-fishing. could bs
seen doing some tall work at the oars Two
of the boats raced in. They were about a
mile off when they started and il was any
body's race until the Stretch" when a
little wiry fellow rowing the larger boat
buckled down and brought his craft in a
good three lengths TO the good. When he
dropped the oars to make the boat fast he
reached down in the bottom of the boat
and pulled up a poor little perch, strung
on to piece OF rope. The perch was about
a couple of inches in length.
Maybe l can't catch as many fish as
you can, SAID ne, ADDRESSING the big SOL
der in the beaten boat "'but I can run
faster then you can on land or water"
The big soldier hauled up a big string of
sizable rock Eish and looked content.
The Return Trip.
The trip back to the city was full Of In
cidents of buck and wing dancing and tha
performance by all hands of such beautiful
ballads Of river trip significance as When
l First Took Nelly Home etc. When the
band struck up Maryland. Ny Maryland"
the boys from many states adapted the
music to their own nativity. Il was 'Michi-
gan, My Michigan" Illinois Ny Illinois"
and so on.
As the boat WAS drawing into the slip, a
soldier up on the hurricane deck aft yel,ed
out in a mega phone voice:
What's the name Of pretty good river
around here?"
The Potto- -maci' was the deep answer
ing chorus from all over the boat
What's the name of a town in these
parts that's all right, all rlght?'
''WashingtOnr'
We'll, let's get off here. then" sang back
the soldiers, and they did.
Evening star., 1898-07-23
ART AN ARTS rs.

Mr.. U. 8. ]. Dunbar has now in his studio
the bronze cast of his, striking bust of
Prof Alexander Graham Bell, and is giving
1t the finishing touches that it still requires
after leaving the foundry. Some subjects
by reason of their, ligttness and delicacy
seem ill-suited for reproduction in bronze.
but the rugged character of this bust
makes it well adapted to it, and the sharp
ly defined lines of the metal casting bring
out the best points in this work Mr. Dun
bar has just cast in plaster a life-sized
figure that he has made of AL Moran, the
bicycle racer, showing the speedy cyclist
in his riding costume bending over his ma
chine he appears when racing. The
arms and the legs from a point half way
above the knee are bare, and this has af-
forded an excellent opportunity to display
the modelling of the well-developed mus
cles. Mr.. Moran is finely built, with small
clean-cut ankles, and the legs in action
have proved an interesting study for the
sculptor. Mr.. Dunbar expects to be in the
city during the greatest part of the sum-
mer.
Evening star., 1898-07-23

For some time past there have been ru-
mors current in the studios about the re-
turn of Miss Mathilde Mueden, who has
been studying in Paris for three years, and
there were many who expected to see her
In Washington before this. Her original
plans, however, have been changed and
she does not now expect ia start for home
before autumn. The portrait which she
exhibited in the Salon won for her some
thing more substantial than mere compli-
ments, and she has commission for full
length portrait, which she must finish be-
fore leaving Paris. She intends to make it
one of her most important canvases, and
will probably give up good share of her
summer to this task. When this portrait
Is completed she intends to make a tour
through France, Germany, etc, before sail
ing for America
Evening star., 1898-07-23
In the Water.

Soldiers In the field have often been called
upon to swim rivers by regiments right af-
ter mess, and, consequently soldiers are
not supposed to regard and such rules
of health as that. for instance, which re-
quires folks not to swim for at least an
hour after eating. These soldiers didn't re-
gard it, anyhow. They made a break right
from the tables to the bath houses, and
those OF them who succeeded in getting
bathing suits were in the water In an in
credibly short space of time. A good many
of them didn't get bathing suits, for a bat
talon is a rather large gang Of men to rig
out on short notice in swimming gear. 4
Evening star., 1898-07-23

Prince Troubetzkoy, who closed his studio
mere short time ago and left for his Vir-
glnia home, will be in Bar Harbor for a
time this summer, as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Barney Of this city.
Evening star., 1898-07-23

Another Washington portrait painter who
expects to spend a portion Of the warm
weather at Bar Harbor Is Miss Juliet
thompson. She will be the guest Of Mrs.
Richard Townsend.
Evening star., 1898-07-23

Mr. Lewis r. Evans. who has been max
ing prlef stay in the city, brought with
nim several oil portraits of people well
known in Washington. The head Of Ad-
H1rai Dewey. which will hang in the home
OF the Army and Navy, Club is one of the
best of these, and is5extremely good in
coior. Another portrait which makes a
favorable impression is the half-length view
OF Justice Field as itis full of character
ana expression. Mr.. Evans portrait OF
speaker Reed possesses many good points,
ana the heads of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and
Mr.. B. H. Warner are Thoroughly good
nkenesses. The artists forte seems to lie
IN ms ability to paint a characteristic like
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LARGE EGGS TO ORDER.
How They Were Made by nn inGeni-
Gus Woman.

years ago by an ingenious woman. 1t
consisted Of Slices OF hard4ooiled egg
at least four inches in diameter served
on lettuce leaves. No egg, saws the
Galveston News, but an ostrich egg. was
ever 50 large. but the secret lay in the
fact that II was a comDosjte GOO. Two
bags of flannel were made. one round
and the other oval. The round one be
ing much the smaller. Into the round
one were droDppd at once the yOIlls
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Not In the Tmba,minc rns!nes..

Once. when a man OF great note died,
his friends tried TO get Or. Holmes TO
SAY a few Kind words about the de-
ceased which might be published" Bot
he declined. DO you see?" ne said.
they want to engage me in the en-
balming business! But cannot help to
preserve this fly in amber"
Along the coast OF Florida aud Geor-
Eia the musical notes of what the old
fishermen call the singing shad' are
often heard. They differ from the coi.l-
mon shad in being smaller. and also
in the formation Of tier mouths. Their
singing i pleasant at first. bat soon
grows Inonotonous. owing to the fact
that it is constant repetition Of the
same sounds
rum D-5-~.Ise, -.-u-- -ra.
The most fatal disease in England "a
bronchitis; then phthisis; then heart
disease, pneumonia and scarletina.