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To Attend Mr.. veith,s Funeral.

The local bookbinders' union lost one Of
its old time members in the death of
Christian Veith. Mr.. Veith, died at his
residence, 277 Louis street, at midnight
Wednesday. while the old union was hold
ing its annual meeting. The funeral will
Louis Street, on Sunday afternoon next
at 100 p. m. The members of the local
union will meet at the corner of Iglehart
and Louis streets Sunday at 1 p. m. for
body
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The annual junior play Of the Central
high school will be given this evening
in the high school assembly hall
The play to be presented is entitled
1.-THE Shakespeare Water Cure" a three
vogue with the colleges in the East. The
characters are taken from the Shaktk;-
peare plays.
The cast is as follows: Hamlet, Gordon
Croft; Shylock, Dwight w. Edwards;
Ophelia, Miss Evelyn Officer; Portia, Miss
Carolyne Salisbury; Macbeth, James A.
Ballard; Lady Macbeth, Miss Ada Frye;
Ghost, H. Paul Hevener; Othello, Joseph
Thompson; Romeo, Edwin J. Clapp;
Juliet, Miss Edith Mcmillan.
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Prcssfeeders, Ball,

The best part Of last nights meeting Of
the pressfeeders union at assembly hall
was devoted to the consideration of plans
for the successful carrying out Of the
seventh annual ball of the union which
takes place at Mozart hall tomorrow
night. The union was obliged to go to
some other hall outside of assembly hall
owing to the hall being engaged for Sat-
urday evening by Theodore Koerner
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Oratorical Conte.t.

The nineteenth annual intercollegiate
oratorial contest will be held this even.
ing in the House of Hope church. The
Wood, .sThe Modern Spirit;s Lewis Drill
THE Passing Glory of England Arthur,
]. Finch, The Decline of the United
States Senate;" Ernest G. Toan, .sWar as
q Factor in Civilization" Robert r. Nc
Kaig,.. SPAIN" Frank G. Sasse, pol
tiles Music will be furnished by the
University Mandolin club
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INSANE HOSPITALS.
Annual Report of the Trustees and
Officers Is Issued.

The tenth annual report Of the board of
trustees and officers of the Minnesota
hospitals for insane has been received
from the printer
The trustees discuss the conditions and
needs Of the three hospitals, and make
suggestions to the legislature as to what,
in their. Judgment are the best steps to
take to provide for the care Of the rapidly
increasing number Of insane people.
The superintendent of the three institu-
tons give a detailed statement of the
population, diseases, ETC., Of their respec-
tive institutions.
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Lodge of Bankers Union.

Rev. j. w. Harris, Of Omaha, supreme
chaplain of the Bankers Union of the
World assisted Mr.. Gillen in the organ
ization Of St. Paul Lodge No: rs. and the
following officers were installed:
lagher, worthy president; M. Furnell,
vice president; ]. Gray, chaplain; P. o.
Leary, secretary; J. Fhebaud, banker; G.
c. Ryder, guard; G. Gallagher, sentinel.
The supreme chaplain also organized
q lodge and installed the officers In Min
neapolis on Tuesday evening.
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Sergeant and Wounded
o gent officer.
I-Thatch
fore the tack
10-Ieft Shepard Calvin ~ -.
COMPANY men
o o o
Of Company undercapt Robinson from barracks to pz
de $500 "NA4'~AS ~ '"N
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Lodge Order of Hermann, Sons for its
TO CLEAN CARPETS. .

annual ball.
A delegation of five from the Minneap-
oils union was present and announced
that delegation. fifty strong would come
down for the annual ball of the ST. Paul
union. Pepins union orchestra has been
engaged to furnish music for the oc-
CASTOR. Two numbers Edward O'Malley
and Max Bietoe were initiated and three
new applications were received and re-
The meeting continued until after mid
night.
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Sterling Silver Dept.

Sterling Silver (925-1o0o fine) ham
die and gold bowl Sugar or Jelly
spoons, neat patterns, put on
up in silk-lined boxes, regu- NyC
lar price SIPS. Special. 49,.
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FIannsI Department.

For Friday we offer very fine
doub1e-face Cream California 2
Shaker Flannel, worth SC a nc
This il excellent value.
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You'll never know how we'll you can feel
until you drink Hamm's Book Beer.
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"shakespenre Water Cure"

Do not confuse Hamm's Book Beer with
Book Beer generally. Hamms Is better.
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The special sale of our best Ia
grain Carpets at so cents a yard is
attracting extraordinary attention.
There are over 40 patterns, fresh.
clean, new goods, good value at
6sc-often sold as high as IN.
75c. Remember our special sJVC
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New Gloyas Rara.

New Cloves her,.
We have just received a direct
shipment of our famous "sappho"
Gleve. embracing all col q m
ors, the best in the world
1Or ..................
See our Victor" the d ar
great wear-resister, NII1
for. Y
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Wash Goods Dept.
0lebe-4-7-'9.

Extra Special, 500 yards IN.
of Printed Pique; our Csc yC
quality. For Friday only.
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Wednesday. HMHE VI
April 12.....-.......-.. III DVtlhmS
(MELBA and DE LUSSAN)
PRICES 81, So, 81. SO, So. 81, s5.
SINGLE OPERA SALE OPENS TODAY.
g q. m.
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C1ubdOff1.

The members of the womans club are
still studying the ruins Of Mexico and Yu-
catan, whose vast remains-many of them
buried for centuries in impenetrable for
ests-bear evidence in their fragments of
architecture. sculpture and painting OF
mighty empires existing in our so-called
new world ages ago. that may have We'd
in power and extent with the greatest ma
lions Of antiquity. Mrs. Kendall related
most interestingly the search for the
Seven Cities of Cibols, tellir. OF the
wonderful legends told of their power and
wealth told by the Indian guides: OF Coro-
nadoes' famed expedition In search of them
and it's subsequent disappointment. She
closed with an interesting description OF
The Zuni Indian and his home In New
Mexico. which has been proven by leading
ethnologists to be the site of the famed
seven cities
Mrs c. NJ. Walker was appointed second
vice president Mrs. Brady having resigned
that Office Mrs. r. B. King was appointed
club delegate to the second annual con-
vention OF the State Federation of Wo-
mems Literary Clubs, which convenes in
Galveston the latter part Of April.
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ant colonel; Captain Wlllrich. senior ma
jor: Lieutenants Drew and Moore. cap
tains; thus advancing all down the line.
or course this Is all old news to people
in Texas, but II takes good long while
for reliable information. such as IL CON
tanned In The Post, TO reach Ms.
The health OF the regiment continues
very good.
Lieutenants CazeiIs and Mnrcbison are
still on provost duty. as is Lieutenant
Raysor. Lieutenant Orchard IL also on
detached duty. being assistant provost
marshal. Lieutenant Murchison Will be
the adtutant of the First battalion and 1t
Ia certain that Major Willrich viii retain
Lieutenant Porter as adjutant Of tho Sec
ond battalion. IL is not certain who VIII
be sdjufant OF the Third battalion under
Major Richards.
Rcgimentsl Quartermaster Deyine has
not yet returned from Texas. though he
is Hooked for daily.
Privileges OF visiting tho city arc re-
etricted TO those having busineF 10 trans
act and passes signed by resif fsntaI bril-
gads and division commanders are re-
quired Of officers and men alike. The
boys must content themselves by taking
strolls through the country. and each
morning one can see Thorn starting out
In parties. with canteen and havarsack.
hunting for sights and IL is well known
that a soldier always finds them.
Already there are beaten paths leading
to the forts and block houses, and the
dear people at home can be certain that
they will hear all about how old Blsnco
had It fixed for us. The country around
fairly bristIes with Notifications OF such
nature as forts block houses. entrench-
ments and barbed wire fences. Every
where there are rock fences and impene-
trable cactus hedges. This cactus 10 diff
ferent from that TO be seen IN Western
Texas and Is much more forbidding look
ing. II 10 easily cut with a knife, though.
and one realizes the service of the mach
etc. However, our new Krag Jorgeusens
furnish us much handler s6ol--the bay
onet--tbe uses OF which are manifold.
Chaplain Watts is very popular through
out the entire regiment He defended
some OF the boys before general court
martial the other day.
The cecisiop OF tho court In the case
OF Buckley for killing Hughes. both Of
the eecond Louisisna. hss not been pub
hshsd yet
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Personal.

Mrs. Kate Florea Upson spent several
days of last week at College she was
the guest OF Mrs. ]. G. Harrison.
Mrs. ]. b. Enrich has returned from
New York and is at her home, corner Ham
ilton and Preston, to her friends on Iues-
days.
Mr., w. s. Hunt called In Galveston last
Sunday and returned to Houston On
late train the same day
Mrs. ]. o. Ross and daughter are vlsit-
ing Mrs. Ross father Colonel j. II. BUR
nett in Galveston.
Miss Marietta Delgado will leave in the
near future for a WISH 10 reia''Ne' IA
Charleston. 5. c.
Mrs. 7. w. House and Miss Mamie HOUSE
returned during the week from Austln'
where they went for the inaugural ball.
CAPTAIN and Mrs. J. G. Hutchinson re-
turned Monday from Washington.
Mrs w. Knox is visiting relatives In
Galveston. She brought Miss Nancy Da-
wilson up to the House reception on Wed
nesday and returned to the Island CITY
with her Thursday mornins.
Miss Fife May Jones is in Galveston. the
guest of Mrs. Stanley G. Spencer, MIS-
Spencer will return to Houston with ner
tomorrow and will attend the Turner re-
ception.
Mrs John e. Gary is visiting relatives IN
Galveston.
Miss Lapaux Of New orleans will be with
Miss Belle Dickson at the latters nome
on Main street today.
Miss Nancy Davidson OF Galveston was
the guest OF Miss Belle Dickson for a
day or two last week.
Miss Alice Rushnore has returned TO
the city. after an absence OF some Two
years spent with relatives in New York
City.
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am considered that a Tar stronger bat-

Sam considered tnat Tar su"nsei p"'-
terry.
Tbese buildings are being thoroughly
cleaned under the supervision OF our Oh
gineering corps-a work OF considerable
magnitude. However, the transformation
is already apparent, though the work was
only recently begun. There WIS a great
pile of old rubbish In tho court, tubs OF
whitewash ready for use and the purify
ing smell OF sulphur everywhere The
Cubsns are employed to do the actual
work but as It was Saturday they were
taking a holiday and none were to be
seen. In this respect they are not unlike
our negroes in Texas. BY the way. there
IL n striking resemblance In appearance
between these negroes and those that we
have always been accustomed TO zee.
Sometimes we think. We'll certainly that
Ia some old darkey from home" but when
he begins to speak the illusion is all gone
we nave seen some dear old "aunty" faces.
ion. with the gentle, kindly look that
cbl,dhood's memory still recslls-but
gesture. no entende, and the illusion vans
ishes
greatly appreciated the opportunity
had OF visiting such an interesting place
MS Fort Principal and in leaving looked
about for some memenfo OF the OCCASION
over the entrance from the drawbridgs
was the Spanish coat OF arms In marbie
This na0 DttU bfoNth ch' 49, Ff~~f-~
were living In the moat below. The COR
poraI got one OF these for me. and, need
less 10 say. / treasure It very highly.
AZ vet i know very little OF the re-
sources Of Cuba but eyeroDe IL surprised
10 zee the lavish use Of such material
that at home IL almost considered pre-
cious. There Is marble everywhere. WINE
in some of the rooms OF the oio iort tnere
we're floors OF mahogany and our soldiers
were using 1t Unfortunately for almost
anything they might need In the way OF
wood WORK. They spoke regretfully 81
having 10 use such precious stuff for such
ordinary purposes. but they needed i,im-
ber IN their work and none other had
been provided.
fear / am wearying our dear people
r,itb items about Cuba, when they are so
anxious for news about the regiment,
During the past week there have been
ssr.r, rcloreI Dwyer qualified ~ colo.
nsl Of the regiment last Friday; Major
Franklin has bssn coumisa'onsd 'isutea'
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A TRUE WAR STORY.
One In Which II Texas boy yvns the
Principal Ciin

One In Which II Texas boy WINS the
Principal Character.
This little story was told to me by an
officer of tho First Texas regiment, now
in Cuba, and ! give il for the comfort of
the Daughters of tho Lost Cause whose
young sons gaily donned tho uniform OF
blue and marched away for to be sojers'
in lingo war During dumb ache in
the mothers heart, not because OF the
enthusiasm or swelling pride In native
land, but for the utter folgctfulness of
tho
Golden memories of horror,
Sown by scourgo of deadly armies"
Over the hopes of her youth.
Comfort You mothers. for blood Is thicker
than water" witness.
In company A (Houstou Light Guard
there is a young fellow twill call him
Jack for Short, who Is always In trouble
with the authorities because OF the ire
sistible delight of the primitive man in
him in "a sorimmage."
In one Of his rare hours of freedom from
guard house" and extra duty" he saun-
tered into saloon in Savannah and at
once made boon companions OF a squad
of Illinois men he found there.
. An officer of the First Texas happened
90 to pass through the room and one Of
the Illinois men made some sighting re-
mark about Texas and that particular Of
fcer. Master Jack instantly struck him
across the mouth and then proceeded to
explain that Texas was his State and tbr.
was his officer. and that he always re-
turned such compliments Jess 80.
Tho Illinois men showed fight" and
we're crowding upon the doughty warrior,
/ .,fr ms od tcp1f
In Ftz James come one, come all. at
titude, with a John Sullivan menace Of
fists. but whose internal conviction was
that in few minutes more he would be
returned to his beloved First Texas as
Jelly. when a squad of Virginia and South
Carolina soldiers entered. whats up?
they called out. "A little shndy,' said cool
Master Jack Where from" came from
Virginia Texas" shouted the Texan.
And then and there there was an align
mont Foot to foot, and heart TO heart
as in the old days when their fathers
made "Marse Robert" name to conjure
with II is needless to say the enemy
took to the woods whether from whole
some fear of the provost or n desire
TO fight another day will never be
known.
confess nothing ] have heard In this
whole lingo business has pleased me so
much unless il was when
200 Wheeler yelled durin' tho gunnin.'
Give 'em HI, boys the Yanks are
runnip'.'
Though his expression was panied,
As he stopped and explained,
y mean the Spaniards are runnin'.'
',It is far cry to Lochaber,' but the
incident reminds one of the old border
slogan: Scots to mel Hither to me, blue
bonnets alIis When Sandy was pressed
- E,- fsCh a,exhl ..,r
and the call meant broken crowns for
somebody. Thus history repeats itself"
Kate s. Terrell.
Dallas. Texas.
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sheItering Arms Home.

The ladies of tho Shclterlng Arms Assoc
citation have sent out the following:
with the desire 10 extend our wors
and make it more helpful we have decided
after consulting with a number Of pbysi-
clans 10 add hospital department TO our
some. Besides our charity waid we de-
dire 10 have good operating room q
resjdent nurse and several rooms to be
used by patients who are able and WILING
To nav. TO do this We viii be compelled
to make an addition and number OF
changes in the home. the expense OF whien
fspproximating 5000 we are unable TO meet
without the assistance OF those who nass
heretofore been ever generous and help-
III Our needs will be principally easn'
lumber and hardware, single iron oea-
sleads with mosquito bar attachments'
wash stands and chairs. bed linen - to"-
els groceries. wood. coal and OIL
MISS Louise Howard Of Dallas S,i %
With her cousin, Miss Carrie Carsih' on
Main street during the coming week;
Miss Mary schluter OF Austin Is v's't'nk
her sister. Mrs. W. B. Chew
Mrs. Rosine Ryan returned ffiuas 1,ncs
from Austin, where she has been sine'
M,ss Isrearet Mccormick has returned
- ber tome IN San Antonio after s.ss
~ week With her friend. Mr'. Aioss'
Easch.
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havana CORRESPONDENCE.
The Forts TINT Surround the city
Notes Of Texas soldiers.
r. 10 EdItnr of The Post

The Forts TINT surround the city.
Notes of Texas soldiers.
To the Editor OF The Post.
Camp Columbia Near Havana, Cuba.
January % Yesterday morning | visited
the Protechpics Miiltar. 1t is located
on the same hill. or | might say noun
tain. that Fort Principal is on. From
this point one has most beautiful view
NJ the city OF Havana. MORO castle. tho
view from here is indcscribably beautiful.
This place is now in charge OF Major
I Mcclellan. chief ordnance officer. who
was very kind and showed me all places
If interest These buildings were the
headquarters of the Spanish military
forces
From here / walked over to Fort Prin-
cipaI This fort commands the city and
Il the principal fort that the Spanish had.
n would easily hold 5000 men. The old
fort at St. Augustine. Fla, Is miniature
representation OF 1t. IL appears To De
protected in every conceivable manner
from ASSISTANTS. Besides the moat which
surrounds the principal part. there is an
underground tunnel which surrounds the
fort and from which the besiegcd could
IRE upon an enemy. There are several
underground passages, which are sup
nosed TO lead 10 the gulf and to the city.
There are three or four old cannon on
the top OF the fort which are mounted.
They were all made In 1868 or 1868. but
iaolr as though they were brand new.
vas admIring the strength Of this fortress
,,han an old corporal. a regular in the
srti,lery service informed me that ono
:, a,,r men OF war could knock II into
n,sres ia very short while and showed
re where some guns had been planted
Sorn closer to the gulf protected only
ty sand bsukE. and toia ms that Uncle
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save DC poor Man con.raetor.


Denver Post.
In order to show the way things should
not he done. the complaint about mail
transportation 10 Santiago may be taken
up. There are seven regiments stationed
there. iyc OF them coming from the South.
ono from Illinois and one from Kansas.
Now. one would suppose that the mail
for these regiments originating In tho
West and the South would 90 by d direct
route from a Southern port 20 Santiago;
but that is not the way the postal author
tiles manage matters. By sending the
mail on direct route. would greatly
shorten the profits Of the mail contractors.
It IL therefore sent from the South and
West TO New York. and from there il
goes on to Santiago. necessarily losing
many days In transit.
Quick mail service between the United
States and Santiago and vice versa would
mean q direct mail line between New Or
leans and Santiago. But then the mail
contractor IN Kew York would lose thous-
ands or miles were this direft route es-
tabiished. Tho postal authorities can not.
Of course be 80 cruel rs 10 deprive the
New York contractor OF the perquisites
he now enjoys. even though the soldiers
stationed In Santiago may be kept out
OF their mail matter from one TO three
Ivesks longer than nscsgssgy. These ua-
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IrunssviIIe Items.

Huntsville. Texas, January rs. Mr.. s. b.
Chance. ST., has been on tho quite sick
list several days, He Is an old citizen and
highly esteemed
Mr.. S. @. Gay and family have arrived
from Houston, and viii make Huntsville
their home They will build near the Nor
NAL.
The International and Great Northern u
laying OF a nice flower park near the depot.
II viii be quite an improvement
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are looking forward with much pleasure
to the party to be given Friday, February
$, by Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Myers for their
daughter, Blanche, at their residence, No.
2Ol6 Travis street.
Tho following self-explanetcry invita-
tons are being sent out:
You are cordially Invited to attend the
hrst annual benefit reception of the Shell
tering Arms association, on Monday Feb
ruary D, from 4 TO 10, AT the parish house,
Mrs. W. G. Crane, chairman; Mrs Horace
Reese, Mrs, r.. II. Dunbar Mrs e. Y. Hart :
well, Mrs. Seymour Brasher, Mrs J. Jour
nay, Mrs, T. l.. 1.arkin Mrs, Dorsey Ma
son, Mrs. Mary Palfrey.
~
The reception given Friday afternoon by
Miss Cargill In honor OF Miss Howard and
Miss Gibson of Dallas was charming
affair from every point of view, and the
The weather. was very bad but the guests
forgot all about 1t in the pleasures OF the
afternoon.
The annual reception Of the newly elect
ed officers of the Ladies Parish association
occurred at the parish house Thursday at
ternoon and was we'll attended despite the
bad weather. Dainty refreshments were
served and programme OF vocal music
was rendered during the afternoon.
49,
The Main Street Euchre club will be en-
tertained by Mrs. Cannon on Wednesday.
February /, instead OF on Tuesday. as
heretofore.
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Lieutenant Love, formerly nrst SER

geant OF the Emmets, bears his new hon.
ors modestly and gracefully.
Quartermsster Machen OF company H..
who for long time at Savannah was not
well, has now almost entirely recovered.
The old court martial. which was ap-
pointed October "a. was dissolved on the
goth OF this month. This court tried nine
teen cases. Captain McAdoo was presi-
dent Of II and Captain Willrich Judge
advocate. Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Ia
president OF the new court
Wcsbad right chilly weather a few days
ago. 1t reminded one Of tho first north
ers late In September or early In October.
in Southern Texas, The Cubans said that
II had not been so cold here in years.
The next tIme J write you | viii tell
you about MORO castle. the cemetery
Christobal Colon. Havana and the missra
BILE shopping there. o.W.
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40 ssni 81 MououSdii, Nation Co. " Va. In n
s sessr 20 nf' Fierce. " have been constant s,,f
plants that generally accompany such CAGES
allways nGer eating there would be formation
oclch up my food after eating bowels we're ve,v
Irregular; would imagine saw objects floa,ins
neiorc my eyes. bad pain across inv hscE'
ABOUT December, 1896 I began feeling much
worse than usual and was beginning 10 think /
would have to suffer the remainder OF nv life.
! WAS greatly discouraged I described my case
10 lf; Pierccs staff OF physicians and thew al.
reetcd me to begin at once taking the Golden
Medical Discovery according 10 directions I
uin so, and aim happy to state I experienced
most gratifying results, as all the unpicasau MT
feelings have entirely left me | have now
a very good appetite, relish my food and am
pleased 10 say feel once more like f,iy former
sell ! recently walked distance Of ono hun.
drsd and ten miles in about four days"
No remedy relieves constipation 40
quickly and effectively as Dr.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets.
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reasonable soldiers have no feeling for
The poor mail contractor in New York.
but luckily the department seems to have.