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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-27

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-27

San Diego, Texas, April ee.--The citizens
of San Diego met at the court house last
night and organized a home guard for the
protection of San Diego aud vicinity. sixty
have signed the application TO the governor
10 be recognized as home guards AMI there
will be sixty or seventy more. There IL
{. little Mexican sheet published in San
Diego. which is exciting the MeHicans
against the Americans in this county and
will possibly cause trouble.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-27
FOR HOME DEFENSE.
FEARS OF DEPREDATIoNs NJ
LAWLEss MExICANs EXPRESSED.
People of DEWITT md Mills Couutic,
Arc Talking of organizing
Cavalry Companies.

Austin, Texas, April 26.--Colonel Fred
House. an old veteran of De Witt county,
arrived this morning and notified Governor
Culberson that the Mexicans of that county
are threatening to commit depredatlons on
American citizens and property. He APP
Piled for authority to raise troop Of cav
airy for the purpose of maintaining order
among the lawless element.
''As soon as the Mexicans of that section
learned that war existed between the
United States and Spain" said Colonel
House to The Post correspondent, "they be-
tamo insulting and arrogant toward Ameri-
cans. They assert openly that Texas right
fully belongs to Mexico and that they are
going to take advantage OF the present OPP
portunity Of getting 1t back again. The
Mexican. VINO are making this threatening
talk are all desperate characters and many
of them are refugees from justice. 4 num-
her OF the leaders were recently run out of
Gonzales county by the Whitecaps and II
Immediate steps are not taken toward plac-
Ing Thorn under control they will cause q
great amount Of damage and bloodshed.
simply want authority 10 organize troop
C; cavalry and be allowed to perform mill
tary duty in preserving order We do no.
want cen. from the State; we Will provide
ourselves with horses and arms and war
rant You that De Witt county will soon be
free from the lawless Mexlcans, many OF
whom are already we'll armed and riding
about the country making all kinds of des-
nerate thrrTs:s
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-27

Luling Texas, April 26.-Rumors that
Mexlcans living on Westfork had made
threats as to what they would do II the
majority of the men left for TIE front
created a great deal of excitement for a
time 1t is believed by those wen posteh
that the runior was started pH Par''e,
who have been endcavoring for the past
three months to drive the Mexicans from
this section AS far as can be learned
the Mexican population is in full sympathy
with the United States. several OF them
volunteering. Those who know them hest
have no fear of their future action.
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1y rose, with his eyes still in the thrall
of the magnetic eyes of the dog doctor.
walked over to the latter's corner, and of
his own volition, rose to his hind legs and
placed his huge paws on the dog doctor s
shoulders The doctor deXterously opened
the mastiffs jaws without protest on the
dogs part, and popped a big black pill into
the huge mouth. Then he said gruff word
of approval to the mastif and the dog
took to all fours again. conquered.
Canine Types.
There were still half dozen dog owners
with their CANNES in the reception room,
when small boy, followed by a frisky,
pure-bred collie, joir ed the crowd, Just
then the dog doctor came to the door of
the reception room to call out Next -
when his eye caught sight of the collie.
Better keep that dog outside for awhile,
boy" he said to the lad who had brought
in the collie. Hes got the mango"
At the word mango all of the other
dog owners look startled, and the women
hastened to pull their pets out of the reach
of the collie.
Take him out of here" the men with
dogs growled, and the boy went out and
waited in front with his collie until the
office had been deserted by the walters.
Along toward noon a middle-aged man
brought in his dog and said to the dog
doctor:
This dogs all mutt and mongraI, doctor,
I know, and so you needn't tell me that
Iut my yOuii5 uduSHlet IndC gone now
picked him up on the street before she took
sick, and the dog was a good deal of COM
pany for her He's bit under the weather
for some reason or other now, and, as
want to keep the cur alive and well as long
as ] can for my daughters sake. L wish
you'd look him over and see what's the
matter with him
The dog doctor examined the dog and
then looked up at the man.
You never paid much attention to the
breeding of dogs, 1 suppose?" he asked
the dogs owner, with a smile.
mo, can't say l ever did, replied the
man.
Il thought not" said the dog doctor.
This dogs no cur. He's a full-bred, we'll
marked beagle hound, one of the best I've
seen in this neighborhoSd, and he's worth
500 of any mans money. A beagle
hound'H fight for the man or woman that
treats him right until he hasn't got two
square inches of hide on his body. So
you've had a good dog right along without
knowing it,
Made a Big Mistake.
The lest caller upon the dog doctor before
this report closed was small coIored boy
The colored boy had in his arms a tiny
bundle that looked like a broken bale of
| white wool, but that developed into a
classy, If dirty. looking little King Charles
spaniel when the darkey lad put him on
the floor.
"What'n you gimme To- de dawgf" ask
ed the black urchfn, after depositing the
spaniel on the carpet for inspection.
About sixty days in jail" said the dog
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pie. Many of them virtually have but one
meal day, which is eaten after they have
stopped work in the evening. They take
nothing but a cup of tea and piece of dry
bread upon rising, and this lasts them until
dinner, although they may have another
cup of tea a noon. AS to the markets,
meats with the exception of pork, are cX-
ceedingly cheap, but other things are high.
Mutton brings almost nothing, and beef
costs about half its value in the United
states. Very little pork is used by the
laboring classes. Most families buy their
bread. as the poor have no facilities for
baking. Licensed bakers supply the de-
mands. and the bread man on horseback,
with his panniers filed with rolls, goes
from house to house daily. The bread sold
In Buenos Ayres is as good as that which
is made in our cities. Cornmeal is not
used, although hominy is common Onions
are everywhere eaten. and a frequent sight
upon the streets is the onion peddler who
goes along carrying strings of onions the
bulbs being braided into straw so that they
can be thrown over the two ends of a pole
and thus carried upon the shoulders Out
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TO cure him he was doping himself with
that and other stun prescribed by a phySi-
clan thousands of miles away. Such in
stances were numerous.
A word more In regard to the canned
beef. II was by no means palatable for
II was unsalted and often OF brisket but
never, to my knowledge positively bad
The canned beef We used to get in the
regular army was much better.
AT Montauk. through the mistaken kind
ness of loving relatives and solicitous ci.i-
zens OF the District We had too much
Pickles and such food are fatal to men in
the condition ia which ours were, and when
mixed with milk their work was very
deadly. Private Maddux was n well man
on the Minnewaska- He sought and OBJ
tained permission TO help the ships cook
and Jared better than the rest. At Mon
tauk he was well until the day he was seen
TO cat pickles, cake. cocoa. sardines and
milk, topped of with lump sugar for a rel
tsh. That night the poor lad was very I'll,
and in a few days went TO the hospital,
never TO return.
These are all facts, founded in what ia
now history. and il people would cease
blaming the war office and look to the per-
sonal conduct OF the men themselves. they
would learn that fully half the sickness In
the army was caused by disobeying ma
lures laws.
ROY L. QCACKENBTSH,
Late LIST Sergt.. Co. II, LIST ID. c. Vol.
December 80, 1888.
Evening star., 1898-12-31

German fire apparatus builders have,
after several years of trial. produced a fire
bicycle, which, If IT falls short of being per-
feet, is an invention far ahead of anything
of its kind in use in the United States 1t
is a four-wheel truck. with low, compact
superstructure, is fully equipped as an en-
gine, and has complete outfit of life-sav-
ing apparatus. The wheels have solid rub
Der tires, II is pedaled by two firemen, Sit
ting tandem, and runs rapidly on good
roads. while its handling and maneuvering
is extremely simple. The firemen having
the one in charge at Gruenewald, a suburb
Of Berlin. recently covered a mile, made
the hydrant attachment and were at work
in something less than five minutes. The
bicycle engine carries the following tools
and implements, slowed snugly away. and
each held securely in place: Life-saving
sack, four water gauges, heavy wooden
cloth or blanket. pickax. hydraulic key,
standpipe or nozzle. spray pipe or nozzle,
spade. adjustable rope and hooked ladder,
life line. leather pouch, with life-saving
gun and line; medicine chest, with band
Evening star., 1898-12-31

ages and drugs; smoke mask. with vinegar
ana ammonia in bottles and leather pouch
pell, lantern and sixty feet of hose, tool
chest torch.
The weight of the bicycle itself and all IL
carries is 81 pounds. and the price of the
entlre OUTFIT Is 900 marks. or about s2T5.
In other particulars of fire equipment
also the Germans are ahead of us. In Ber-
I'm the hremen wear water jackets, with n
double skin, which they are able to fill with
water from the hose. If the space between
the two layers becomes over-filled the
water escapes through valve at the ton
of the helmet and flows down over the fire.
man like a cascade, thus doubly protecting
him. The smoke helmets, also a German
invention, are largely used throughout Ger
many, and in Austria, Holland and Italy
and are now on trial in some of our fire de-
partments. The smoke helmets enable the
wearer to breathe and to see with some de-
gree CT comfort In a smoke-iaden atmos-
phere. Some of the newer patterns Of
these helmets contain means OF telephone
communication leading out of the building
and into the street below.
Evening star., 1898-12-31

the whole republic. There are no better
equipped schools of the kind anyw here
than the Argentine now has. They have
some of the finest buildings of the republic.
fhey are found today in nearly every prov
ince, and many young Argentine girls are
being trained in them. The native Argen-
line women make excellent teachers, but
there are not enough schools for them in
the cities in which the normal colleges are
located, and 1t Is not considered just the
thing for a young lady TO go away from her
own town to teach. The result Is that most
of them remain at homo and stand in the
doors or lean out of their windows day
after day gazing at the passers-by. This Is
the chief occupation of the middle class
girls of the Argentine cities.
As 10 factories the Argentine Republic is
yet in its infancy as a manufacturing ma
tion and the females employed are compar-
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atively few There are some g1ove-makers,
cap-makers and umbrella sewers, who are
paid from 30 cents to dollar OF our
money per day. There are some good
lilies women are used as house servants.
but about the hotels and boarding houses
all of the scrubbing and cleaning and much
of the chamber work Is done by men.
How They Wash and Iron.
The washerwoman and the laundress has
not the chance in the Argentine that she
has in the United States. All families have
their washing and ironing done out of the
house, and it is customary for one set OF
women to do the washing and another to
do the ironing The washerwoman never
irons and the ironer never washes. The
corrugated zinc washboard is not known
The clothes are usually taken to the banks
of stream and rubbed with the hands
on fat stones or upon boards in the public
wash houses, where for small sum for the
week a woman can get place at the
trough and use of hot and cold water.
There are many families who do nothing
but iron, one woman employing from five
cents gold per day. The ironer usually ar
ranges with his or her customers for both
washing and ironing, and lets out the wash
ing to the washers. The prices charged at
the hotels are by the piece, and they seem
to me very high.
lhe SO"DOy Oh tne fampAs.
A letter upoE the poor of the Argentine
would be incomplete without the gaucho.
The gaucho is the native Argentine of the
country. He is the cowboy of the pampas,
a man like whom there is no other in the
world, peculiar product of southern South
America. The gaucho is a cross of the
Spaniard and the Indian. If any part of
his blood predominates it is that of the
Indian, although his Spanish traits are al
ways to be seen. The gaucho will not farm.
He will not work in the cities, but he is at
home upon horseback. and is always ready
to ride over the plains and to watch or
drive cattle. He does not like to tend
sheep. He Is q nomad, and prefers odd
jobs to steady work You may see him
anywhere outside of the cities and wher-
ever you see him he is the same His COM
pleXion is usually of a light coffee color.
He looks, in fact, like an American In
dian bleached. He has full black and
rather heavy beard. His eyes are coal
black, bright and fierce. and his form is
often short and wiry. He dresses in a Gu
rious way. His black head is covered with
Evening star., 1898-12-31

doctor. making sudden dive for the black
urchin, who, however, bolted for il and
was chasing down the street in jiffy.
THE lady that owns this spaniel has
been hunting high and low for him for two
days" said the dog doctor, land that black
gamin made a mistake very common among
bis kind when he tried to sell him to me.
/ m dog finder, as well as a dog doctor"
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III A V E WRITTEN
of high life in the
Argentine Republic.
The country has it's
low life. as well. Its
poor are in the great
majority. It has tens
of thousands of peo-
pie who live in zinc
sheds. and there are
courts in BuenoS
Ayres about which
men, women a n d
children swarm as
thiCk!y as they do in
Evening star., 1898-12-31
A Stuffed Pug.

"A Stune0 = uS.
Dewey has no animation at all lately,
DOCTOR" began the young woman. I'm
dreadfully worried about him. He seems
so-wel my brother calls 1t 'dopey.' Can
you tell me what ats hinn?''
The dog doctor smiled.
Certainly, with my eyes closed he re-
piled. Hes stuffed"
"Stuffed?" exclaimed the young woman,
with surprised expression. why, what
can YOU"
"Gorged." pursued the dog doctor. Fed
about ten times more than he needs or can
handle. 1 notice that you've been feeding
him candies ever since you've been here.
Do you do that right along?"
well. Dewey is so used to his candies
that it would be cruel
"Oh. not cruel at ALL put in the dog
doctor. Candy is not the natural food for
dogs. Nothing ails this pug"-pcking the
dog up and looking him over-''eXcept as
1 say, he's stuffed. Put him On a regimen
of bread and water, or corn bread and
milk, from now on. and I'll undertake to
say that he'll soon be as frisky as any pug
dog can be by nature"
The young woman's face assumed an ex-
preston as mournful as If her sieepy-look-
ing pet had been condemned to the block
as she paid the fee and went out.
Not the Real Thing.
A man with fox terrier pup was next in
line.
Hey. doc" hs began. passing the pup
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Too Much for the MaStfff.

Then there was a procession of dogs,
accompanied by their solcitous owners
that really had something the matter with
them, the dog doctor diagnosing and pass
ing upon the cases with apparent knowl-
edge and skill. There was something very
human about the conduct of the sick dogs
Some of them were ugly, others peevsh,
when in the hands of the dog doctor. He
quickly put them at their ease, however,
with his deft, adept way of handling them
He had to open the jaws of a numbar of
them to have q look at their teeth and
tongues and to throw queer-looking brown
ish pills into them and it looked like risky
work in some of the cases. One huge mas
tiff positively declined to have his jaws
forced open under any circumstances, and
growled ominously every time the dog doc
tor attempted the job. Finally the dog
doctor walked over to another corner of
the room, where he stood up straight and
said, Come here" in a tone of command
to the dog. The mastiff, with his huge
head lying between his paws, looked up
at the dog doctor with doubtfulness in his
blood-shot eyes, and for a second or two
after the command had been given he did
not move, but only blnked. Then he slow
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wards half-past 10
O'Clock, the pavement
in front of a Wash
ington dog doctors
Office begins to take
on an appearance of
human-doggish ami
nation. This is the
time when the ca
nine patients begin to
arrive, accompanied
by their masters and
miStreSSeS, Some of
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tor, speaking in rather a low tone. "He's s
a bit lonesome, that's ALL
There was an expression of understanding
in the widows eyes, and her face went a
little pale.
The dog'li be himself in time" con-
tinued the dog doctor.
Come. Bruce" said the young widow, in
a voice that seemed to have tears behind it,
and they passed out.
THE hound misses his master" said the
dog doctor, after the widow had gone with
the dog
Evening star., 1898-12-31
Female school Teachers.

There are a number Of women employed
as school teachers in the Argentine Repub-
lie. This is perhaps thu most respectable
profession a young woman can have. A
former president named Sarmiento intro
duced the first female school teacher. He
had been minister to the United States, and
had there met Horace Mann. and through
him became interested in our system of edu-
cation. 1t was through him that a number of
American school teachers were imported d
and normal schools established throughout
Evening star., 1898-12-31
Queer Phases of Human Existence
in the Great Republic.
CONVENTILLOO OF BUENOS A7RBS
Most of the Working People Are
Italians or Spaniards.
COWBOYS OF THE PAMPAS

Copyrighted 1895 by Frank C. CarpenterJ
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BUENOS AYRES, November y. 1895
Evening star., 1898-12-31

in the country the laborers live almost en-
tirely upon meat and although they could
If they would have garden patches, they
seldom care to undertake the trouble of
raising vegetables.
Trades Unions in the Argentine.
The different classes of laborers have their
own unions. / have been told by railroad
men that they seldom have strike among
their employees. There is no great variation
in wages from year to year, and in all
branches strikes are almost unknown. The
most of the employers prefer to get their
work done as far as possible by contract
or by the piece. This is especially so in
railroad construc ton, where excavation is
done by the cubic yard, and other things
in the same way One man will hire d
gang of men TO help him, and he will be
responsible to the contractors or their Of
ticials. Upon all the large eStancias or
farms the proprietor has store and fur
nishes the goods to his hands, deducting a
certain amount from their wages to pay
for them. The railroads often carry pro-
vision cars with them and sell a a little
over cost price eatableS and other goods to
their workmen, furnishing wine and clothes
as well as all sorts of provisions, from Lon
don jam 10 hard-tack. Neither in the coun-
try nor in the cities do the laborlng classes
seem to care for comforts as our laborers
do. galvanized iron she'd forms the home
of the farmer, and a room in a conVen-
tillo that of the city wOrkmen. An Ameri-
can mechanic would not live in this way,
and l do not think he could make enough
money in the Argentine to enable him to
buy the comforts ha has at home. The Ar
gentine laborer has to pay more for his
| clothing, and he has nothing like the edu-
catiOnal or social advantages of his North
American brother. There is, in fact, no
chance in South America for North Ameri-
can laborers.
As TO the women, those of the poorer
classes have a much worse chance in the
Argentine than in the United States. There
are but few female clerks in the stores.
Women are not generally employed in the
government departments and the profess
sional typewriter of the Argentine has yet
to be born. In the government telegraph
office there are a few women operators,
and al the telephone there are girls TO
answer the calls. They are not hello
girls" however. The Argentine man, when
ne calls up central" yells out "oila" to
get the young lady's attention, and often
talks to her a moment before he begs her
to have the graciousness to connect him
with his butcher, baker or candlestick
maker. 1 am told that IL was first thought
the girls would not serve as telephone
operators. The young Argentine dandies
who were among the patrons of the inSti-
tuition made love to them over the wires
so that s9vere restrictions had to be i'm
posed before the service could go on with
out clogging.
Female School Teachers.
There are a number of women employed
Evening star., 1898-12-31
Mourning for His Master.

Next came a nice-looking young woman
in widows weeds. A disconsolate-looking
Italian greyhound followed her into the dog
doctors consultation ROOM
"Can you tell me what ails this dog?" the
woman in widows weeds asked in a sub
dued voice. He does not seem himself
The dog doctor examined the hound crit
ically, pried his jaws open, thumped him in
the chest and listened to his heart BEATS
and then looked up at the widow.
THE dog is not ailing," said the dog doc
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over to the doctor for inspection, whats
aching this dog, anyhow? He's so nervous
that he can't sleep O. nights, and he ap-
pears to be always chasing something that
he can't find. And he's always chewing up
something. Chewed up one of my wifes
hats and pair of her slippers into ribbons
while we were at the theater last night.
know something's the matter with him. but
I can't make out what it is. Wouldn't like
to have anything happen to him, for he's a
registered dog, and full-blood.'
Registered? Wheref' inquired the dog
doctor. Who told you he was a full-blood-
ed fox?"
tDarkey coachman that I bought him
FROM" replied the pups proud owner. Said
he was registered and had a pedigree as
long as your arm"
II thought it must have been a coach
man." said the dog doctor. your pups
about three-ffths fox and rest pure dog
Some carriage dog in him."
The mans face fell. II thought he was
the real thing" he said.
LAS for what ails him. pursued the dog
doctor, hes all right except that he's a
walking flea trap. Enough to make any
dog nervous. Wash him off with this and
the dog doctor handed bottle of dog lotion
to the pups owner. LAS for his disposition
to tear up things, that's your calamity in
possessing pup with fox TERROR in him.
It's the particular graft of fox terriers to
destroy everything chewable in sight from
tho Hra6la "a he Srra1 >,