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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-09-22
PROVED THE BEST
It Was Whist the Decor Ordered
is Merits Knewn.

sANANToNIo. TEXAS. lean speak
IL the highest terms Of Hood's Sa-saearilla
IS 1t has benefited me great desl. Some
years ago I was in very poor health and the
prescriptions Istried did not benefit me.
st last the Doctor began to give me Hoods
SarsapariIla and it proved to be the best
of all medicines for me- CHARLES s.
POWELL, z29 Iowa Street.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
what women Are Doing.

Chicago is to have woman S athletic
club. 1t will be opened in few days.
The only cat ranch in the world is
owned by Mrs. Leland Norton of Chi
cago
Two young women of Auburn Park,
a suburb of Chicago, are making a good
income by raising goldfish.
The making of death masks is the
unusual occupation of Miss M. E. B.
Culbertson of Richmond, Ind.
On charge of deserting her husband
a woman in Western Australia has been
sent to prison for refusing to contribute
to the domestic comfort of her life part
ner.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey of Wash
ington is dean of the Washington Col
lege of Law. She is daughter of Platt
R. Spencer, author of the Spencerian
system of penmanship.
The best patronized stagecoach in
the vicinity of Colorado Springs is driv-
en- by Mrs. Nellie Greenfield, who ham
dies the reins over four horses and
makes good living by it.
Elkton, Nd, boasts the only woman
bank president in the country. She is
Mrs. Jacob Tome and has heen elected
president of the National bank of Elk
ton, having been president of the Cecil
National bank of Port Deposit, Nd, FOR
some time
Miss Jennie Reid, an accomplished
violinist of New York, makes philan-
thropic use Of her talent. She plays in
hospitals, missions schools, asylums
and to the children of the slums wher-
ever she finds them. She plays without
money and without price and is salts
fed that her music does worlds of good.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
Selecting Cigars by Color.

One of the most absurd fads of the
cigar trade is that of color in reference
to havanas. The idea prevails that color
is indicative of strength. 1t is no such
thing. A light or medium colored cigar
is not necessarily mild or medium in
flavor, for the simple reason that the
color refers to the outside wrapper only,
which in itself is of very thin substance,
and in quantity is of very small proper
tion to the other materials that make
up the cigar. AS matter of fact, the
filters and bunch wrappers will deter
mine the body or strength of the cigar.
The actual strength or otherwise of the
inner body of the cigar-viz, filters and
bunch wrappers-is too often an un-
known quantity. 1t is quite true that
a statement may be made that these
parts are o-and so or mixture of this
and that and give certain ash, etc,
but this explains nothing. Not only are
there various grades of the same tobacco
in relation to quality, but there are also
a variety of grades that determine
strength. With the exception that GER
tain tobaccos have varying degrees of
body or otherwise, mild, medium or
full cigar is largely matter of chance.
London Grocer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
JEWELRY JoTTINGs.

The marquise, one of the most beautiful
and effective of ring forms, bids fair TO re-
gain some of the great popularity it not
long ago enjoyed.
As specimens of fetching cravat pins fo1
men may be mentioned riding crop sup.
porting bits and spur. fox mask of dia.
monds with ruby eyes and stirrup and
leather.
Opals set between disks of crystal and
connected with sections of gold links into
long chain represent an artistic and
unique conception. Crystal, by the way,
seems increasingly in evidence.
The wide bands of diamonds or pearls
that are worn tightly clasped around the
throat continue one of the most important
ornaments for evening dress and conse
quently occupy much space in jewelers.
cases.
Very charming toilet appointments in
glass, including boxes for powders po-
mades, creams, ETC., have the now popular
silver gilt top with some dainty design,
such as the wild rose, enameled in colors
Jewellers Circular.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

old and first settled in Pittsburg. They
removed from there to Michigan and
finally settled in Chicago in 1856. In
1861 she was married to Thomas Carse,
a railroad manager of Louisville, by
whom she had three sons Her hus-
band S health failing, they went abroad.
and he died in Paris in 1870. Four
years later her youngest son was killed
by being run over by wagon driven
by drunken man, and this tragic Incl
dent led Mrs Carse to devote her life
to the cause of temperance and social
reform
In 1875 she founded a free reading
room for sailors at the Bethel home,
Chicago, where she did some highly
commendable reform work. She was in
1878 elected president of the Chicago
Central Woman Christian Temperance
union, an Office which she has now
filled for 81 years. In connection with
it she inaugurated such reforms as the
Bethesda day nursery, the Talcott day
nursery, free kindergartens, gospel tenn
perance meetings, Sunday schools, dis
pensaries for the poor, industrial schools,
etc. The annual cost of the various in
stitutions is raised by Mrs Carse per-
sonally. It was through her efforts that
the Florence Crittenden Anchorage mis-
sion, home for women, was estab-
lished in Chicago, and also the Bethes-
da inn, a lodging house for poor men.
In 1880 Mrs. Carse founded the Wom-
an g Temperance Publication association
for the publication of The Union Signal
and other temperance literature. The
entire capital stock of the company,
$125, 900, is owned by women. She was
a member of the board of lady managers
of the Worlds Columbian exposition
and was president of the Woman S Dor
mitory association, which provided
cheap accommodation for working wom-
en- who visited the fair. Mrs. Carse also
established the Aid Society of the Chi
cago Foundling's home and has been its
president ever since. She was the first
woman to serve on the school board of
Cook county and was for years on the
board of the Home For Discharged Pris-
oners. Lucy LAWN.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

Chamberlain and his son Austin. The
drawing room is the purely aesthetic
feature of the house, though all the
other apartments are more or less in
harmony with it. The ceiling is made
of deep stained satinwood panels set
off with walnut. The walls are covered
with flowered silk material and the fur
niture is made with ebony. inlaid with
ivory. The pictures include an excellent
example of Golfers Arundel Castle, +"
couple of Cox's best water colors,
"Venice, by Fred Walker, and one of
Prout's finest studies in architecture,
'tThe Zwinger Palace, Dresden.
Mr.. hamberlain's conservatories are
famous in England, and his wife takes
great pride and pleasure in them. They
are mainly devoted to the cultivation of
orchids, for which Mr.. Chamberlain s
love amounts almost te passion. In
their beautiful residence Mr.. Chamber
lain and his wife dispense generous
hospitality. She is just as popular
among the country gentry as in London,
and is beloved for her own sake.
JENNIE DoANE WILLIS.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
A Pleasant Letter.

It takes clever man to find good
word to say on every occasion. tits said
of Thomas Bailey Aldrich that he once
received letter from his friend, Pro-
fessor Edward S. Morse. and found the
handwriting wholly illegible, Mr.. AL
drich was not at loss for an answer.
In due time there came to Mr.. Morse
the following reply:
My dear Morse, it was very pleasant
to receive letter from you the other
day. Perhaps should have found ii
pleasanter if had been able to decipher
it. don't think I mastered anything
beyond the date, which ] knew, and the
signature, at which guessed.
There is a singular and perpetual
charm in letter of yours-it never
grows old, and it never loses its novelty.
One can say every morning as one looks
at it: Here's a letter of Morse's ]
haven't read yet. / think shall take
another shy at it today, and maybe
shall be able in the course of few
years to make out what he means by
those t's that look like WIS and those il
that haven't any eyebrows. =
Other letters are read and thrown
away and forgotten, but yours are kept
forever unread. One of them will lasl
reasonable man lifetime. = Youths
Companion.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

How the venetians TnIl Fish

How the Venetians Talk Fish.
The streets of Burano are bordered
with massively built arcsdes, under the
shade of which women knit and spin
and men wrangle in loud voices in a
dialect from which all consonants seem
to have been dropped. The same endless
argument concerning fish is forever in
progress at Chioggia. / never could
learn precisely the nature of this argu-
ment, but am inclined tn think that it
has it's origin in the congenital inability
of fisherman to tell the truth as to the
fish caught or lost by him. have never
yet seen Chioggian who was not just
on the point of shaking the dust of the
town from his bare feet and going on
board his fishing boat as the only refuge
from the unspeakable mendacity and
general villainy of his incredulous fell
low townsmen, or who had not just
landed from fishing excursion and was
in the act of taunting the rest of the
world with its inability to rival him
as piscatorial liar.
The people of Venice affect to believe
that the men of Chioggia are even more
dangerous and quarrelsome than those Of
Burano, but have always found both
Chioggians and Buranese peaceful and
inoffensive folk, and the dislike which
the Venetians have for them is doubtless
due to their superior powers of argu.
ment in regard to fish. Cassell's Maga.
zine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
PERT PERSONALS.

Helen Gould ought to have an office of
some kind.-Denver Republican.
If Hit goes to England as American
ambassador, in cockney speech he will be
sit. ''-Chicago Democrat.
Zola is growing bigger every day. If
he keeps on, he may grow big enough by
and by to write decent book.-St Louis
Republic.
Ii Lillian Russell is looking for another
husband, we take the liberty of calling her
attention to General Cassius NJ Clay of
Kentucky, who is eligible again.-C Chicago
Tribune.
Owing to circumstances over which he
has no control the German emperor has
postponed his trip to the Holy Land. Je-
rusalem will therefore just have to watt
New York Mail and Express.
The Springfield Republican remarks
that "Robert Treat Paine announces that
he can't be bothered by politics this fall as
he is about to take wife, Well, WE'LL
we'll Whose?-Chicago Times Herald
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
His Iden of scoring.

At country cricket match in Lanark-
shire local farmers boy was appoint
ed scorer, his duties being carefully ex-
planned to him The first inning was
not very productive of runs and soon
came to an end, and every one made a
rush for the scorer. Judge of their sur
prise, however, when they found that
not single mark had been made in the
carefully ruled book that had been pro-
vided.
When reproached in somewhat strong
terms, the boy was not in the least dis
concerted, but, with the most ingenious
air in the world, said:
81 was sac eenterested in the sport
that / quite forgot to max the crosses.
But it disna matter that wee laddie
wi the red face is the smartest runner
among ye. London Tit Bits.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
TO A VIOLIN.

What wondrous power from heaven upon thee
wrought?
What prisoned Ariel within thee broodss
Marvel of human skill and human thought,
Light as dry leaf in the winter woodsl
Thou mystic thing, all beautiful, what mind
Conceived thee, what intelligence began
And out of chaos thy rare shape designed,
Thou delicate and perfect work of manf
Across my hands thou liest mute and still;
Thou wilt not breathe to me thy secret fine;
Thy matchless tones the eager air shall thrill
To no entreaty or command of mine.
But comes thy masteri Lo, thou yieldest all
Passion and pathos rapture and despairi
70 the souls need thy searching voice doth
call
In language exquisite beyond compare,
Till into speech articulate at last
Thou seemst to break, and thy charmed lis
tener hears
Thee waking echoes of the vanished past,
Touching the source of gladness and of tears.
And with bowed head he lets the sweet wave
roll
Across him, swayed by that weird power Of
thine,
And reverence and wonder fill his soul
That mans creation should be so divine.
Calm Thaxter
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
TABLE DoN'Ts.
Don't smoke a cigar while eating

Don't smoke cigar while eating soup.
Don't order chicken if you want chick
en-, but order crate egg; itcomes cheaper.
Don't put your elbow on the table. If
at loss where to put it, put it in your
pocket
Don't fasten your napkin around your
neck. It is now customary to wear col
lar there.
Don't pick your teeth or quarrel at
the table. Both should be picked in the
back yard.
Don't eat your meals with your fingers
at boarding house. Try your mouth;
you get the taste better.
Don t put your knife in your mouth. If
there is not room ON the table for it, bal
ance it on the shoulder of the person next
to you-London Answers.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
-1he county. ,rnxes.

Up to 1865, when the Drake constitution was
adopted, the limit for county taxes was fixed
at the rate levied for siate purposes.
After the adoption of the 1865 constitution
the Republican legislatures removed the bar
riers and permitted the county courts, with
out the consent Of the people, to levy oppress
i've taxes and saddle upon the taxpayers enor-
nous debts
County and township bonds bearing and
10 per cent interest were issued right and left
by the millions to pay for stock in mythical
railroads. There was no limit on the issue Of
county warrants. The burden upon the tax
payers became too heavy to be borne The
people couldn't pay their taxes and the county
papers We're filled with s'land delinquent
lists, notifying owners that their property
had been forfeited to the staten Many OF
the fairest counties in the state were bank
rupt.
The people saw proper in 1873 to restore the
state government to the control of the Demo
cratic party. In 1873 new constitution was
adopted limiting strictly the powers of the
general assembly, county courts and city
councils in levying taxes. The maximum rates
of taxation were fixed at less than one-h half the
average rates levied by the county courts and
city councils from 1885 to 1878. This compelled
wholesale reduction in the expenditures of the
municipal governments, and experience has
demonstrated the wisdom of the constitutional
limitations.
Taxes Levied by Missouri and Ada
cent States.
The rate given below is that fixed by the
states to pay the expenses of carrying on the
state governments and supporting eleemosy-
nary and penal institutions, exclusive Of the
tax for support of public schools and for pay
ment of state debts
Illinois ...... 80 cents on the $l00 valuation
T., Il. ann
Arkansas. 22212 cents on the 500 valuation
Kansas ........ 85 cents on the 500 valuation
Missouri. ....... 10 cents on the 500 valuation
This rate of 10 cents on the 800, fixed by the
Democratic legislature every year since 1892
has met and paid all the expenses of our state
government, the erection and improvements
of public buildings, including a liberal support
of three great lunatic asylums, Reform School
For Boys, Industrial Home For Girls, School
For Deaf and Dumb, School For the Blind
three normal schools, Lincoln institute, State
university and School of Mines.
During this same period of Demo
cratic supremacy the permanent endow-
ment of the State university has been
augmented by about 81, 900, O00 Mis-.
souri-Democratic Missouri-has the
largest per capita school fund of any
state in the Union. This is applied
Democracy in imperial Missouri. say
to the people of those states which are
groaning under heavy burden of taxes
and public debts brought about by Re
publican extravaganza and Republican
misrule: 'tGo and do likewise. Follow
the wise and glorious example of Mis-
souri,. Try the beauties of applied De
mocracy.' twill do you good and make
your hearts glad.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
The Artist Monet

Claude Monet, the impressionist art
ist, who lives in the picturesque village
of Giverny, in Normandy, is now a
wealthy man, but the house he has en-
larged is quite like that of the sur
rounding peasants. White plaster, with
red tiled roof, narrow and low and
long, for his family is large Personal
ly, he is an interesting looking man of
about so. strong and rugged, the type
of a refined peasant. He wears the big,
clumsy wooden sabots of the country,
combined with the finest linen, with
hemstitched ruffies at neck and wrists.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

Jne. It commenced to grow dark. The
electric lamps were already lighted, and
under their blush light the whiteness
of the snow appeared like marble. Even
ing had come. The third poplar to the
left, all covered with snow, waited in
vain, like herself, Drawing, like her, the
fury of the tempest Adriana, benumb-
ed, trembling, lonely, came out from
her hiding place and turned to retrace
her useless steps.
The maid hastened at the sound of
the bell.
''Is it Signor Enrico?' asked Adriana
anxiously.
"No, met him on the stairs after
the signora went out, and he came in
again in few moments -
"Adriana, Adriana. my love, where
have you been in such weather.
So saying, Enrico met her with open
arms. He freed her from her mantle,
heavy with snow brushed her damp hat
and led her lovingly toward the open
fire.
She let him do SO and looked around
her. The dinner table was spread with
the white damask tablecloth, the gilt
tering glasses, the silver, the bouquet
of sweet flowers, the bright lights-all
this blessed paradise of love lost forever
this brought her desperation to a
climax, and while Enrico, crcuching at
her feet, kissed her hands red with cold,
she broke out into weeping.
Enrico rose with bound.
"What has happened to you, my
love? What grave disaster? Oh, speak,
Adriana, do not let me suffer sot'
But Adriana could not speak. Sobs
followed sobs, and her breast heaved
spasmodically.
For the love of God, Adriana p
burst forth Enrico, "For the love of
God, speak, or | shall go mad p
Enrico's tone was so heartrending,
his words trembled so on the verge of
weeping that Adriana looked at him
for an instant and stammered in a
broken voice:
"You do not any longer love me p
Enrico Gained himself as if by magic.
He regained control of himself, kneeled
again at her feet and said with caress-
ing voice:
And why do you say do not love
you any more?"
At this seeming show of hypocrisy
Adriana felt her heart filled with dis
dain at thought of her lost calmness
and love and happiness. She sprang up
and drew away from him as from an
impure object, looked at him with eyes
full of tears. exclaiming, in a voice
trembling with despair:
perhaps another woman than me-
perhaps woman whom you call your
adored Amelia here her voice broke
into sob waited for you today in
the garden at O. clock under the third
poplar to the left"
A ripping laugh, shrill and irresisti-
BILE, interrupted Adriana's words. En-
rico laughed like a lnadman. He en-
braced her in spite of herself, drew her
into his study, covering her with kisses
and, pointing to the scattered pages still
lying on his writing desk, said:
"But do you not see? Do you not see
that this note belongs to a story that
your Enrico is writing?"
Adriana looked at him with arnaze-
ment. Her eyes filled with JOY.
"How have suffered p she said in q
trembling voice, in which few sobs
still remained, then sank exhausted on
the sofa, covered with Enrico's kisses
and caresses. the Italian For
Short Stories.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
WoMEN WAYS.

= At 16 or so woman will tell her age.
Every married woman believes she is
"on her feet" too much.
Women never lose things. They put
them in good place, and can't recall the
place.
Women enjoy being martyrs, which may
account for the fact that there are SO many
bad husbands.
An unusual girl is one whose favorite
books have something else happen in them
besides love affair.
We can tell how old woman is by look
ing at her cooking stove. If she always
has something stewing on the back part
she is getting along in years.
No woman who drives up in front of a
store in her buggy and conpels clerks to
come out is popular, though she may be
only 16 and have diInples and money
Atchison Globe
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
SINGLE copy FIVE CENTS
NUMBER II
THE TEMPLE BUILDER.
Asrs. Carse and Her Busy Life Of wolA
For (fhera

For Others.
The Woman's temple of Chicago,
that immense building which has been
the cause of much contention within the
ranks of the Woman's Chicago Temper
ance union, was the last great enter
prise that engaged the thoughts of Miss
Willard before her death Her dying
moments were disturbed by the fear
that the building designed for the veal
Of present and future generations might
pass out of the hands of the union and
be used for totally different purposes
from those for which it was intended.
There is now, however, good proba-
bility that contingency to be SO much
regretted can be ayerted. Mrs. Matilda
B. Carse, founder of the temple and
president of it's board of turstees, hopes
to be able to secure sufficient money for
the payment of the temple trust bonds,
in which event the building would be-
come the property of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union.
Mrs. Carse, whom Miss Willard called
"the temple builder, because the idea
of the structure first occurred to her.
was born near Belfast, Ireland. Her IA
ther emigrated to this country with his
family when she was only a few years
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
FRENCH RAGouT.

The lying IL the Dreyfus case seems
to have been of the endless chain variety.
Washington Post.
Ananias was an able liar for his day,
but he would be obliged to exert himself
to hold his own in French army investi-
CATION. Washington Star
The new French minister of war wears
a monocle. The chances are that he will
need glass for his other eye to see much
joy in his jol,--New York Press.
France is again learning the truth Of
that old, old saying that nothing is ever
finally settled in this world until it is set
tied right. The lesson comes hard some-
times, but it comes. Boston Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20
Literary Pursuit.

Fynshly-What is Wally doing now?
Well, when last saw him
he was engaged in a literary pursuit.
Fynshly-Indeedl l didn't think he
had enough brain to write.
Harrison-He wasn't writing. He
was chasing newspaper that the wind
bad blown away. london Fun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

There is an old woman, says a
London paper, "who has milk stand
In st. James park, who has stood at it
for So years. Her mother kept it before
her and her grandmother before that,
the latter having been in possession for
"a wears -
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

Prayer as the expression of a sincere
and grateful heart may have its uses,
and doubtless has. But in the mouth of
man who loans money at 200 per cent
interest on chattel mortgage it may as
we'll be omitted. columbus Press Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

The Chief Burgess of Milesburg, Penna.. saye
DeWitts Little Early Risers are the best pills be
ever used in his family during forty years oi
house keeping. They cure constipation. sick
in size but great in results A. s. Marshall
Woodbury., N. j.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-20

Bob Moore, of Lafayette. Ind. says that for
constipation he has found DeWitt's Little Early
Risers to be perfect. They never grippe. Try
them for stomach and liver troubles a. s.
Marshall, Woodbury., N. ].