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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-25

Haley, who said he was a stranger to the
citizens of Houston, but he felt burning
interest IN the cause OF Cuba and her sui
telling patriots. He referred to the re-
peated cruelty and tyranny OF Spain, which,
he SAID, Was enough 10 make the blood of
any liberty loving man tingle with shame.
For years the sword OF Spain hal been
stained with blood, while pyramids OF dead
men and rivers OF blood wore the monu-
mehIs To her oppression and tyranny.
should spain conquer Cuba IT would merely
perpotuate Spanish tyranny. Cuba has
made glorious Hight aud she will die in
the attempt 10 achieve her liberty Spnjn
mas promised autonomy, but Cuba bas
spurhed tho proposition, knowing the re-
suit Of SPANS previous promises Auton
omy is simply baited hook and the Gu
bans know II. He said this administration
had not fulfilled the wish OF the people IN
according to Cuba her belligerent rights
lie charged that the administrations OF
Cleveland and Mckinley were both lomI-
mated by the influence of wall street hut
Tho day Is almost at hand when Cuba viii
purst the chain that binds her TO the Spa,-
ISM throne and shine In the bright firma-
ineht OF Tree and independent countries.
In conclusion, Mr.. Bailey spoke In Span
lsh with apparently as much fluency 40 he
delivered himself In English. His speech
was frequently applauded
NJ the conclusion of the meeting Major
Crank adnonished the people to think So
riously of the Cuban situation and the dls
aster that has befallep that country. de-
stroylng some 100000 or more of its peo.
pie.
lie ticn put the motion to adopt the res
olutons and the affirmative vote was yo-
cterous and unanimous
Mr., y. ~ Kennedy, before adjournment |
thanked the crowd for their attendance
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was Interrupted by Frank hsaD ~
The band rendered several seiecs'ySs, - I
which refreshments we're sersca
pleasant evening was enjoye%
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1 credited by Some with similar inten-

credited by some with similar inten- tions. Time will show.
 In the First Crusade there were many princes, but no kings. The Second Cru sade was conducted in person by two monarchs, Louis VII. of France and Conrad III. of Germany. Both were un- lucky. Louis-according to Gibbon- was surrounded by the enemy and driven up tree like Q coon. This strikes one as exceedingly French, though the place was exceedingly re- mote from Fashoda
 Conrad also was enmeshed, 'lfke a victim crowned with flowers and led to the slaughter" but he finally made his escape with the loss of most of bis army Both these doughty crusaders reached Jerusalem at last, where they must have offered up their prayers in genuinely humble mood.
 The next royal crusader, also Ger man emperor, was still more unfor- tunate. Brave old Frederick Barba- rossa, deserving of better fate, was drowned in little mountain torrentin Cilicia, far from his goal. These Cili- elan streams appear to have been as hostile to monarchy as Brutus himself; for another, close by, once made an att tempt, which barely failed, on the life of Alexander. William will do we'll to give these watery assassins a wide berth; they are as dangerous, appar- entity, as the Italian anarchists, against whom he has taken such elaborate pre- cautions.
 Only year later Richard the Lion- Hearted and Philip Augustus of France
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ary with the French, soon evacuated the country. As to Richard, one is sometimes tempted to think that he is Williams chosen model of kingly vir- tues-but it would be cruel to press the comparison, and, after all, William is much the better sovereign, though not likely to attain the same renown as d crusader.
 The last German emperor who as- pired to fame as crusader, previously to the present incumbent, was Freder- ick II. Fame he had hardly achieved, though he did succeed in entering Jeru- salem and restoring it to Christian rule But, like William, he had become in- volved in a quarrel with the pope; and, like William, he came off second best. As a reward for his eminent services as soldier of the cross he was excom- municated 4 coronation in Jerusalem was the honor which he had proposed for himself, but the city which he had rescued would have nothing to do with him. The patriarch sullenly refused to take any part in the ceremony, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was cheerfully draped in black, and the ex- asperated monarch was actually forced to crown himself with his own hands. This as the net result of an expensive campaign was so disheartening that it is little wonder that the enperors of Germany thereupon suspended opera tions in Palestine for more than six cen turies.
 William has not. on various occasions, shown hi1zself a very enthusiastic friend to America, but we wish him joy in the peaceful crusade which he is now eonsummating and much better luck than any of his predecessors in Palestine:. DAVIS TURNER.
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shrine of Him who taught only love and mercy; after which the deyout champion rose and with equal feryor shed more blood. The royal pilgrim of to-day may be trifle too fond of the atrical display, but on the whole we prefer his methods to this.
 The motives of crusaders are in most eases mixed. Godfrey and his compan- ions were faithful to their pledges, and delivered the city of our Saviour from Moslem bondage; but several of them incidentally carved out principalities for themselves in the land of their pious sojourn. The promulgator of this latest and happy bloodless crusade, who is certainly no less ambitious, has been
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per correspondent; but themodern spy is more apt to roast the pilgrim.
 At last, after marching and counter marching for months and years through famine and pestilence and feud and fire and carnage, the crusaders of old stood before the sacred city. The inhabitants did not then swarm forth to greet them, clamoring for baekshish; fierce cries of defiance and showers of keen arrows were their welcome. Stout walls and heavy gates barred the ap- breaches which are now so easy. Tine keys with which they forced an en- trance were huge engines wrought of timhers brought from forest 30 miles away; long ladders and nany-storied towers were their stepping stones. Once in, their celebration was red carnival, in the midst of which their leader knelt in feryent prayer at the
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wake. and the ghastly track was again whitened by the unlamented dead.
 When we turn from this tremendous panorama of advancing hosts to con template the retinue of Emperor William, we do not find it impressive. Even that spiendidly-uniformed body guard of giants, of which he is so justly proud, would make but a poor showing among warriors such as Godfrey of Bouillon, reputed able to split an in fidel from shoulder to hip at a single stroke. But that is only one of the many disadvantages under which our hero labors from living in this incredu- ious and unromantic age.
 Still, the comfortable progress of William on his pilgrimage is a pleas ant spectacle compared with the ad- vance of those military pilgrims of an earlier date. A more atrocious warfare than they waged in the name of the Gospel of Peace it would be hard to conceive. They bombarded the city of Nice with the heads of slaughtered prisoners hurled from catapults. Be fore Antioch they made a practice of roasting spies. Possibly William may now and then be sorely tempted to emulate them in this mode of dealing with these prototypes of the newspa
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showed them shorter way to 94fcn.
 I e are viewing modern spectacular
 on the stage of the grandest trsg-
 s of history. A brief comparison of Told performance with the new is 7 f timely and.cannot fail to be of in- Hir nineteenth century crusader has ]|e his queen n partner in his pil~ 1fage. In this he is but following Example of some of his royal pred- zsors though the outcome was Railways such as to encourage imita-
 Yet tho first famous pilgrimage q that which set up at Jerusalem N1lnigllty magnet which drew al tho
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quence of fanatic monk set in mo- tion such an avalanche of arms and men as history nowhere else records. Europe has loosened from it's founda- tions and hurled against Asia"
 The array of horse and foot that streamed across Hungary and Bulgaria ard sSarmed beneath. the walls of Con- stantinople exceeded even the hosts promenaded by Xerxes. It was hlzened by those who saw it to the leaves of the forest, the sands of the sea, the stars of heaven. The total number of those who left their homes, bearing the cross upon their breasts, has been es- timated at as high figure as 6,o0o, GOO. The armed and disciplined forces
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@contrasts. The roads which have been 2so carefully smoothed for the melo- dramatic progress of the pilgrim of to- iday were then rough and bloodstained 1.-The original itinerary was not arranged 5by tourists agency; the long and ar lHuous march was blazed out with
 Bleaching bones and hedged with steel
 Where William pauses to gaze on ruins tais predecessors halted to make ruins. Where he is served by a sultan with Splendid banquets, they were served rby a sultan's emissaries with poisoned
 fiands. Bringing Turks obsequiously
 Conduct the modern crusader to the 'kery entrance of the Holy SeplIlcher.
 Their ancestors grimly ushered in
 Euding Christians into nearer tombs,
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The Ledger Monthly.

The publishers of the New York Ledger snnonnce the discontinuance of that publl- cation as q weekly and its appearance ln future as a monthly
 The Ledger was founded by. Robert. Bon ner. The world knows the history ot that venture. He took into his work new ideas and determination to succeed. lie maze aSl realms of fiction. -World-Herald, Omaha,
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track. To Helena, also, a fantastic legend attributes tue discovery of that most renowned of relics, "the wood of the true cross" in defense of which ht- man blood was to be spilled like water.
 But that was many centuries later. In Hclena's day Mohammed was not yet born. At the time of the first cru sade, the greatest and most amazing pilgrimage that the world has ever seen, the zealots of the Koran had long held the Holy City, and the Mosque of Omar profaned the site of Solomon's temple.
 At last the warlile nations of the west were reused. It is said that a single cry will sometimes bring down an avalanche; and the frenzied elo-
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In No Hurry.

MT. Testy (meaningly)-I don't want to interrupt your conversation with my daughter,s but the -er-last car goes by at 12.
 Mir. staylate (with composure)- Thanks, many thanks, but there's big German ball uptown, and a con- ductor told me the cars would begin running again at two.-N. Y. Weekly.
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u,.,, We reep the Philippiness

p,,blo opinion is divided as to the WIsuuln of keeping en the Philippines. Wise statesmen are found on bQh sides s of . the ene aess0h way in regard to the wisdom of eTep9D0fHY HYosfetter fet their health. For thls PurpoSse PpS iTgp1 Tbis medi- SsonsG c;ne is botb preventive and for malarla feHe fevers B % stomach disorders torpid liver and i,GrTI in6urIe blood. 1t is agreeable to weak sten- acbs and soothing to the nerves.
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both came to Palestine, and quarreled as French and English are wont to do.
 Neither got so much as a glimpse of Je- rusalem, though they did succeed in taking Acre after much trouble. This was hardly an equivalent for the Holy
 City, however, for Acre might be called the Port Said of that day in the matter of shameless vice. Philip, as is custom
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rest, was led by woman-Helena, mother of the Roman emperor who gave his name to the city where Wils' liam was so lately feasted by the Turk. She it was, according to tradition, who brought to light the forgotten tomb of Christ--for the grave itself lay buried and reared before it shrine to re-, deem which millions of crusaders thronged to Palestine, and to visit which William is parading in their
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Real Swell.

"Chollie says he is in favor of expan- sion"
 How on earth did he ever happen to have an idea on the subject"
 T don't know, but I think it struck him as something swell. ."-Indianapo- lis Journal.
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The paths which the emperor of Ger many is now trayersing in medieval pomp, rather grotesquely combined with modern ease and safety, are all ready we'll worn by royal footsteps. Mailed feet they were for the most part, and in several instances the clash ing metal bore the weight of monarchs of his own sturdy race.
 But while the route is the same, all else is changed; and startling are the
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Cnnfnsed.

"You went fishing with Miss Keediek yes terday, didn't you?'
 "Yes'
 ''Catch anything@ ,.,t know whether I caught her or she caught e."-Illustrated American.
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were rated at about eoo,ooo. Before
 them rolled an amounted rabf,le of
 and thieves and tramps;
 and these are said to have perished in such numbers that the true crusaders actually stalSed out camp with pail sades of their bones. Later, another vast "Coxey's army" followed in their
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Hicks-"Just saw Hogley. Had been to the doctors. Doctor tells him he IS looking himself again" Wieks-'YIs he really as bad as that? Poor fellow!"-Boston Transcript.
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Since the discovery and introduction of Dr. Mofett's TEETHINA tIeethihg PoDdefs) the death rate of small children has largely decreased TEErnINA Aids Digestion, Regu- iates the Bowels and makes teething easy.
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Wnrth Conaidering.

She-Humph! What has any member of your family ever done to make your name 20 ringing down the corridors of time!
 He0Well. my Uncle John had l3 chil- dren, mostly boys Cleveland Leader.
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Hicks-1' You want to know if Innerby loves that girl? Why, he actually loves her faults" Wieks-" Lucky girl She has so many."-Boston Transcript.
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He struck it. St. Jacobs Oil struck his Rheumatism. It was stricken out.
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Don't Neglect Cough. Take Some Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar instanter. Pike's Toothaehe Drops Cure in one minute.
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Mrs. Styles-"H Have you heard of any fall there's FesuYius. "-Yonkers Statesman.
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Lawsakes It cured my aches. St. Jacobs Oil makes no mistakes.
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It is harder work to neglect work you should perform than it IS to do it.-Atchison CInba
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For every mistake of your own that you notice, you make dozen that you are never aware of.-Atchison Globe
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See there. bad sprain cured; and St.. Jacobs Oil cured it.
The western recorder., 1898-03-10
A PRONUNCIATION PUZZLE.
Test Yourself by Reading This Little Story
Alnud

The following episode" will prove a
very clever puzzle as test of the abil-
ity OF people 10 pronounce readily and
correctly many common words of their
native tongue The list, which con-
tains no words of disputed prounucia-
tion is as follows:
An interesting inquiry took place in
the court of over and termner some
time ago. Indisputable evidence was
given toward proving that heinous
incident had taken place during n pub
lie pageant. II seems that n pretty girl,
rather juvenile in appearance. having
an extraordinary head of hair, like an
Albino, represented Thalla and sat on
n pedestal erected on one of the floats
The procession was directing its course
down the Mall. when the attention of
the onlookers was drawn to the excited
conduct of one of the spectators who
had fixed her eyes upon the tiara. set
with Jewels in the form of n cnrat.
which Thalia wore upon her head MS
she sat In what seemed TO be her won't
ed attitude of nonchalence and leisure.
This person was aftcrward shown 10 be
n maniacal laundress whose squalor
and detesiatlon and hideous grimaces
We're all unnotlced by the mock god
dess. What vagnry bade this reptile
turn her servile eyes. full OF rapine, on
the beautiful maiden. 1t is hard 10 say {:
but suddenly, under pretense of see
ing something on the ground, she pro-
duced n hiatus in the crowd. and thus
obtained precedence of ALL Simultan-
eously with her appearance the van
drove past. She then filled the air with
gross raillery and began to promulgate
Anarchsm, society's lack of probity
and the general predelection of Doliti-
clans for patronage. Then she besoughf
her audience to hear her dIaie on the
glaciers OF the Alps. the ruins OF Pom
peiI. the female franchise. the
Pleiades. and her patron saint. She
was evidently demcnicd. and the flow
of her vocables appeared endless. Sud
denly she raised n pestle which had
been hidden under her shawl, and
threw II directly al the visor on the
girls head. Thereupon haccid litlI-
ographer. who was cutting swath
as tribute on the following van
grnsped seine and threw II over the
gaunt old hag. so that her efforts to
escape were futile. and she became as
docile ms n lamb. The pathos of the af-
fair lay in the way the girl bore the
ordeal. In court the vrago gave an
aHns instend OF her own name Her de-
fense was that vaccine. whose pres
cnce was shown 10y n scabious arm. to-
geiher with desuetudc in the matter uf
personal freedom. had produced an
obsesslon which decrced the irrevocable
death Of the girl An inventory of her
belongings WAS Inndc. aud she WAS
then sent To an asylum AZ victim of
acute homcidnl nania.-New York
Times.
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twenty-nine times In one inch. The
proportion between steam and electric
ity, therefore, in dellcacy of movement
in this instance is four times twenty
one. or 11s times as great
The chief objection to all radical In
novstions like this one has hitherto
been based on the sound principle that
In actual conflict the machinery or mo-
tive power might break down and the
work would have to be done by hand
power in such an emergency, thus
guns, turrets and every other light
ing appliance on board some warshlps
are provided with alternative hand
tackle. But there does not seem to be
any reason why electricity would no,
lend itself to be coupled with hand
power apparatus. at least as we'll, II not
better. than either steam or hydraulic
power.
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To surpa.s Niagarn.

But big as the Niagara scheme is.
'ork has just commenced upon a still
lre4r scheme of water-power develop
tent near Massena, on the st. Law
sncoriver. United States of America.
. II Intended to develop here 10000
orse-pover by taking advantage of
10 Inference in level between the st.
aWrence river and the Grass river,
owing nearly parallel to it at dis
lnco of three and half miles. A big
anal is to be cut across the interven-
is .p1ateau. and a fall of water fifty
set b height thus obtained on the
ankn of the Grass river The latter
ve<will itself form the tail race" of
10 aver station. This scheme dwarfs
lo Niagara one. since not only do the
Lara provide for greater amount of
ov1f but man is going to do what
atuIe has done for him at Niagara
am1ly, provide the waterfall. The
eeeuary capital for carrying out this
she3e has been provided. work has
eeu commenced and 1t is hoped that
,m@tof the turbines and dynamos will
8 Mprking by December, 1898. II no
nfc<eseen difficulty occur, and II this
>h1ne be completed by the date
ard, 1t will certainly form one of
le Dost remarkable achievements of
le entury. y.-Chambers' Journal.
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Tho HnniliIll.

The boatbiil. of which only one spe-
cies is known, is considered by natural
lists as merely a night-heron with an
exaggerated bill. so much widened as
to suggest its English name. but has al
ways been allowed generic rank. This
curious bird inhabits Cayenne, Surf
nam, Brazil and similar lands. 1t sits
perched upon trees which hang over
running streams, and ever and anon
darts down upon fish. These 1t de-
YOURS most greedily, and. indeed, they
seem to be its principal food. The
boatbill is about the size of a dome~,ic
fowl. has shorter limbs than most OF
the herons. but resembles them in plu-
mage. and is abundantly provided on
the back of the head with elongated
feathers. which it erects when irri-
tated. The front parts are white (the
crown black in the male). the upper sur
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LIrrrpool and sla,e rraar.


The great wealth of the merchants
enjoy practical monopoly of the Afri-
can slave trade for a long period prior
to Liverpool having any share in 1t,
says Conner Williams History of the
Liverpool Privateers." Liverpool ad-
venturers with a small capital were
unable to equip vessels and purchase
goods specially adapted to the African
market and of no use outside OF that
market. nor could they afford TO await
the uncertain results OF round voyages.
sometimes prolonged TO more than a
year and subject to terrible dangers
unknown to any other description OF
trading adventures. Early in the eight
eenth century. however, a successful
rivalship with Bristol in exporting pro-
visions. coarse checks and silk hand
kerchiefs of Manchester make to the
West Indies and the continent Of Amer
lea eventually enabled the merchants
of Liverpool to participate in the more
lucrative slave traffic.
While Liverpool obtained from this
competition a sudden accession TO her
commerce which filled her warehouses
with sugar, rum and other West In
dia produce. the trade OF Bristol to the
West Indies declined. The checks OF
Manchester, carried in Liverpool ships,
ousted from that marke. the German,
French and Scotch osnaburgs exported
from Bristol.