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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23

left TO propagate their kind. Then read
ing the first stanza OF THE Man With the
Hoe" he gave In full review the French
as an example OF what has there existed
TO make the man with the hoe" and as
typical OF like conditions that have pre-
vailed In other nations.
The deterioration OF the French pens
antry In abject misery and pitiful ignor-
ance has come from these causes, nance
ly; The best blood was destroyed when
the mobiles and their wealthy allies, men
and women, youth and maiden, were be-
headed; and tho nation lost OF them and
their multiplied thousands OF descendants
TO be so much beauty and nobler manhood.
II was so, too. when the proudest and
purest blood OF the Christians was purged
out OF the nation by persecution; and that
sturdy character that would die for q
principle took root In Italy and In other
lands. their exile homes. The nation was
again impoverished by the loss OF her best
bleed that for ages was recklessly split
on many battle ground That chivalry
and nobility aud grandest heroism. and
the millions OF descendants, sons and
daughters to be, could never be restored
to France. The nation was made poor
in that type OF manhood and OF woman
hood. the flower OF the nation So It went
on, till finally the more degenerate class.
the simple. feeble and ignorant peasantry.
prevailed They werg not the stuff from
which soldiers are made; they were
people OF few convictions and OF lower
ideals and were too feeble to assert them
they were men with the hoe" In like
manner Italy Greece, Rome and Holland
and England in less degree have long been
making "the man with the hoe" There
have come forth no stronger arguments
for the existence Of THE man with the
hoe than chat his ancestry were like him.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23

on begging tour through New England,
with young New Highlander in charge, a
graduate of Harvard, believe,
The n. e. made most pathetic talk on
the condition OF the negroes in Georgia.
which brought perfect rain of tears
from the tender hearted audience. but the
contributions for their relief In hard cash
were in dimes. The performance was
farce THE quartette" were too highly
educated to do the negro dialect we'll, and
too much negro TO be anything else The
singing was below par. We hear much
better music from strolling darkies on our
streets and moonlight nights. They were,
however, poor, prosecuted blacks" from
that benighted and barbarous South, and
sympathy was rampant. Scores OF ladies'
went up to be introduced TO them after
the concert, and number of young ladies'
begged photographs OF the fetching dusky
four
The one subject of absorbing interest
to these people is The Negro" written In
Roman capitals. They ask tnnumerable
questions and, no matter how conserya-
tive the reply, no sort OF credence is given
to 1t.
Governor Northen's splendid exposition
of the truth, his very statistics. were pro-
nounced lies" by the people and DresE OF
Boston. What were the proven facts OF
a Southern gentleman, born and bred
among the negroes, the governor OF a
great State, or any number o. southern
gentlemen and governors. In comparison
with the statement OF Mr.. Thomas For
tune" 'cullud gentleman or Mrs. Mar
tina Barrett" "cullud lady, OF New Eng
land birth and breeding? To your rabid
reforrner the honor Of all the white wom-
anhood OF the South counts as nothing
against the lynching OF one black brute,
Were / autocrat OF the Lone Star. In
stead OF lynching tthat does no good. and
demoralizes and brntalizes the whites). ]
should have the criminal branded on the
forehead with large X. after the manner
Of the old New England blue laws: and
amin him TO Boston to be reformed"
There Is nothing more amazing than tho
ignorance here OF what has been done and
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23

New York. July 1s.The first statue OF
Jefferson Davis ever fashioned has Just
been modelled by Mr.. George Julian zol-
nay of this city. 1t is of heroic size the
figure being seven and one-half feet. and
1t will rest on pedestal of suitable di-
mansions. This pedestal wifi be cut from
a block of Southern granite and on its face
will be engraved the name and age of Mr..
Davis, aud probably also some suitable
inscription. The entire expense of the
statue has been borne by Mrs. Davis and
her daughter, Mrs. Hayes, of Colorado, the
sole motive for its erection being the de-
sire of the famous statesmans widow and
daughter to pay respect to his memory In
this enduring fashion.
The figure is represented as wearing the
very clothes in which Mr.. Davis was
dressed when he was captured by de-
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AT BOULDER.
Some Recent Attractions mt the Colo y
RADIO Chautauqua.

Some Recent Attractions Mt the Colo
RADIO Chautauqua.
Texas Colorado Chautauqua. Boulder.
Colo, July 1s.--The climax Of attractions
has como to Chautauquans this week DR..
David Starr Jordan OF Leland Stanford
Junior university has in large measure
towards making this so far
the greatest week OF the season. The first
or his three lectures here has been given
us in his magnificent address yesterday
afternoon on "The Man That is Left.
His text was an application to the
French painting and the American poem
entitled THE Man WIKI the Hoe" With
fine analysis and clear course OF reason.
DR.. Jordan showed conclusiyely the causes
that have produced tine man with the
hoe" After showing that by the selec-
ton OF the best type OF any lower animal,
as the COW, the sheep. the horse, and the
careful elimination OF any such deterior-
ated stock, then only the finest types are
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23
A BRAVE FRENCHMAN.

.
| "The bravest man saw during III.
war, said Charley Settle Of company A
Fifth Texas, Hoods brigade, was a
Frenchman, the captain OF company o!
artillery. 1t was the second day of Man
assas, just after our regiment had wiped
out Fremonts New York Zouaves, We
drove the zouaves across Bull Run creek
a narrow but deep stream, shot and
drowned nearly all of them, and, cross
ing the stream, we charged the battery
which had been playing on us. When we
got near the guns we saw that nearly
every man and horse had been shot down
and that those who were not killed or dis
abled mad taken TO their heels. One man
alone remained. He was a Frenchman,
the captain of the battery One of his
arms was shot off and hung by thread,
but he held his sword in his other hand,
waved 1t over his head. and tried to get
his men back to their post He did not
notice us, but, turning his back on US he
called 10 his fleeing men and in broken
English cursed the Yankees for towards
and everything he could think OF Our
commanding officer yelled out for no one
to hurt that Frenchman; that ne was too
brave to die. We captured the guns. ana
the Frenchman, too, and he was sent to
the rear cursing the id cowardly YAM
KEGS. who had deserted their guns under
fire. / never saw him afterward, but
hcpe he got we'll, for he was the most
gallant soldier met during the whole
four years in Virginia. AS we charged on
his guns I could not help thinking OF Ma
poleon's old guard at Waterloo, VINO dieu'
but never surrendered
NOTES.
The late floods have caused such serious
interruption to the mails in Texas that II
was thought best TO defer this initial IN
stallment Of veterans talks until now
| have on hand two interesting papers,
sne by Comrade C. C. Cummings of Fort
Worth. sergeant major of the Seventeenth
Mississippi regiment, and another by );
NJ. Stricking of Beaumont. 'comraoe
who wore the blue. and who has written
a fine description OF the charge on for.
Robipett. or. as he calls 1t, the second
hattle OF Corinth, where the brave Colo
mel W. p Rogers lost his life. Botn pa,
nnrs are too long to use just yet, but VIII
be given a place as soon as the column
is we'll introduced
Can any member OF the Texas division
vonch for Charles A. Dali? He Is most
worthy man. is old and in need. and de.
aires to obtain a pension. He knows OF
none of his comrades living. he was
sergeant OF company II. Thirteenth Louis
lana volunteers. and was drill sergeant az
ramn Moore. He bears several honoTapie
scars hut the State requires more EVIL
danes than these OF his right to pen
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Is, being done for the negro by the South !.
ern people. One lady--and a most intelli-
gent one--actually did not know there
We're any negro schools In the South ex-
cept those supported by Northern sym
PATTY tsave the markD and Northern
money.
Sometimes the geography is a little
mixed. too. We Texans are apt TO think
OF Texas as the largest and most far
reaching of empires, but our belief IL
small to that Of the Boston lady who asked
Texan III the waters Of the Pacific were
not much warmer than the Atlantic?" On
being told the temperature OF the Pacific
was an unknown quantity to the Texan.
she said why you we're Just telling me
you were frequent visitor TO your coast. :"
ITO the Texas coast, yes" We'll, doesn't
Texas border on the Pacifc?' K,5.T.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23
NEW ENGLAND IDEAS.

a rexas Visitor Tells of some Ab-
surd Impressions In that seet'oh.
Gloucester, Mass, July ls.--t Is tne
middle OF July and as cold at Bass Rocks
,s December in Texas. The Cuban family
and the Texans are lowering AROUND 'ne
sitting room fire. but the pretty Northern
ladies are out in their pre-empted rocking
chairs on the hotel galleries. huddied IN
rugs and shawls. Their superior noses are
hlue and miserable. 1t is summer and the
proper thing to do, though heavy fog
envelopes sea and land.
There was quite an excitement among
them last night over a negro quartette
from the Atlanta university" who are
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23

and yet to other critics these lines have
otter and sadder meaning:
Bound by the weight of centuries. he
leans
Uron bis hoe and gazes upon the ground.
Tho emptiness OF ages in his face,
And on his back the burden OF the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and de-
spair,
A thing that gricyes not and that never
hopes,
stolid and stunned. a brother to the OK?
Who loosened and let down this brutal
Whose was the hand that sluntcd back
this brown
Whose breath blew out the light within
this brain?
10 this the thing the Lord God made and
gave
To have dominion over sea and land.
To trace the stars and search the heavens
for power.
To feel the passions Of eternity"
DR., Jordan dweh lastly upon our Amer
lean history and left a deep inference for
It's future In the civil war. said he. al
moot million sons Of the Netloa were oe-
stroyed, some OF the best blood Of the Ma
ton. and the republic lost not shcse only.
but millions Of sons and daughters that,
had these brave men lived, would today
be among the best of the land and direct
ing. as now needed, the affairs OF the Ma
tion.
DR., Jordan,s solution OF the problem Is
that our prosperity lies In peace. In jus-
tice, in return TO Christian principles and
In education that helps TO make the citi-
zen self-sustaining and independent.
W.W.h..
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Ad,utant General Young
explains what is wanted;
personal narratives,
vherein the IL" figures,
are desired for this col
umn; the IL" in stories.
[. camp life, of battles. of
..yerv and daring adds
IsIue to them.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24

glass with a piece of white or colored
paper, as the subject may require, at
such distance as to cast no visible
shadow That is to say, the shadow is
lost before it reaches the paper. BY
this means one gets a negative of the
object only. Some subjects look better
on clear ground, then use a sheet of
white paper. For tinted ground, a
gray; and for black ground, dull
chocolate paper will be found the best,
as it seems to have the least reflection
and absorbs the light better than black.
Such butterflies as the common and
marble whites, small blues, etc, look
better on dark ground, whereas near
ly all the others show better on a clear
ground. The same remarks will apply
to other insects. In making series
of photographs of butterflies, they
should all bear the same relative pro
portion to one another, as in nature,
and not be the same size. To obtain
this, they should be taken with the
same extension of the camera, and the
same distance between the object and
the lens. BY working on these lines
one can obtain a set of photographs
that are perfectly accurate in size, with
relation to one another. | have not
said anything about the method of ex-
posure. This is the crux. If ones sub
ject is not properly lighted and exposed
we do not get a negative worth print
ing. | would at once say that if one
has the opportunity, there is nothing
like daylight; but it is not everyone
who can spare the time to work in the
light of day. Further, many days dur
ing the winter months are not fit for
such work, so it is best to use mag
nesium ribbon, as its Photographic
value is nearer to daylight than any
thing else. With seven inches of the
ribbon, and a rapid, thickly coated
plate, one will find it easy to get good
negative, full of detail, and graduation
of light and shade. The best developer
to use is pyro-soda. For the formulae,
see any of the Photographic text
books. | need scarcely remark that
any printing paper may be used, pref
erably those of the gelatino-chloride
type, as they give brighter image
T. f. Freshwater, +. r. NJ. S., in Science
GOSSIP.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
A LIGHTNING STORY.
Strnnge Case Reported to n Medical
journal by an Eminent Eng
Iish Physician.

Two brothers, aged respectively 2s
and % years, were driving together
near Chester in dogcart during
thunderstorm. They were apparently
struck by lightning and seem to have
fallen simultaneously out of the back
of the vehicle, for they were found
about five minutes after the flash lying
side by side on the road with the seat
of the dogcart under their legs and the
driving apron over them. ] arrived
from ten to fifteen minutes afterward
and found them both quite dead; the
bodies were lying in the road in the
same position as they were found. The
elder brother had no external sign of
injury. The younger brother present.
ed the following appearances: The
epiderms was burned over the chest
and abdomen, not continuously, but in
number of circular holes from one
sixteenth of an inch to a quarter of an
inch in diameter. The metallic collar
strd was fused and the skin beneath
was deeply burned. The back from the
neck to the buttocks was burned, but
less severely than in front. The vest
and shirt were charred, but the waist
coat and coat were uninjured. The
wooden drawers and trousers had a hole
| burned in them about about two inches
in diameter corresponding to a burn
on the right buttock. On the occiput
there was a confused scalp wound evi-
IDENTITY due to the fall from the We
hicle. There We're no other injuries
nor were any of the clothes torn off
either of the bodies.
There was still no rigor mortis an
hour and half after death. His watch
was going and seems not to have been
magnetiZed, as it has kept good time
since. The cloth of the cushion on
which the younger brother sat was
| burned on its outer surface, but the
wooden seat beneath was uniniured.
The tailboard of the dogcart has the
paint slightly singed Immediately De-
hind the younger brothers seat, otner-
wise the vehicle bears no traces of the
! lightning. 1t was very wet from the
rain. No one else was in the cart be-
sides the two brothers. The horse was
uninjured and trotted home of its own
accord. The road also bore nc traces of
the ghtning.-London Lancet.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
AN ONION CULTIVATOR.

16 inches. b B are two irons that are
fastened to the beam. These irons are
one-quarter inch thick and two inches
wide, and bolted to the beam. is the
beam and is one and one-half inches
square. d represents the handles. e
is two braces made of onefourth by
two-inch iron. There can be several
holes made in the braces. The handles
can be lowered and raised to suit. + is
the iron to which the knife is fastened
and is made of one-fourth inch iron. G
is the blade. We made ours out of an
old cross cut saw. 1t is eight inches
long and two and one-half inches wide.
At each end there should be high
guards. Then there will be no danger
of covering the young plants. The
blade can be made any length that the
distance between the rows requires
Ira GRADER, in Agricultural Epitomist.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
Pain Conquered; Health Re.
stored by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
Compound.
LETTER TO MRS. p1NKHAM NO. oe,64ol


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pound has done for me. 1t is the only
medicine L have found that has done
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time, no appetite, pains in my back and
bearing down pains and great suf-
ferer during menstruation. After TAX
ing two bottles of LYDIA e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound 1 felt like new
woman. l am now on my fourth bottle
and all my pains have left me. feel
better than | have felt for three years
and would recommend your Compound
to every suffering woman. hope this
letter will help others to find cure
for their troubles" - Mrs. DELLA
REMICKER, RENSSELAER,, IND.
The serious ills of women develop
from neglect of early symptoms Every
pain and ache has n cause, and the
warning they give should not be disre-
garded.
Mrs. Pinkham understands these
troubles better than any local ply
sician and will give every woman free
advice who is puzzled about her
health. Mrs. Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass. Don't put off writing until
health is completely broken down.
Write at the first indication of trouble.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
TREATMENT FOR IDIOCY.
Thyroid Extract Has just Been Pro-
nOunccd an Almost InfaIIibIe
Cure for Cretinism.

Cretinism is form of idiocy caused
by the lack of part of the thyroid gland.
1t is a form of goitre. Many children
have it. The moment the thyroid secre-
ton stops forming the development Of
the child stops short. If, for instance,
the child had advanced to the age of
seven and then failed of its thyroid, it
would go through life as a seven-year-
old child as far as brain development is
concerned. There is an opposite condi-
ton brought about when too much
thyroid secretion is deposited. We
know it then as eXopthalmic goitre. 4
person with this malady is the opposite
of the idiot-that is, intensely active
and alert, supersensitive in all things,
the antithesis of dullness, as it were,
ENopthaImic goitre can be cured by
removing part of the thyroid gland
from the throat; cretinism can be
cured, or rather held in check, by 9d-
ministering thyroid extract to the
idiot. If child is taken young and
properly doctored with thyroid extract
it will go on developing just like any
normal child. But if the administering
of the extract should be stopped sud-
denly, the youngster would relapse into
it's former idiotic state, OF, at any rate,
stop Of: whsre it was.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
e it is well to irrigate transplanted

fore it is we'll to irrigate transplanted
trees.
In watering plants of any kind a
large proportion of the moisture ap-
piled is lost by evaporation. A very
simple method for sub-irrigation of
trees is shown in the cut. Take four
pieces of eight or ten-inch board, two
feet long, and nail them together into
simple, four-sided box without ends.
Set this in the ground at the base of
the tree and let the top project above
ground three or four inches. Throw
some coarse grass or trash into the bot
tom of the box, and pailful of water
can occasionally be poured into the
box and allowed to soak into the earth
gradually. In this way no water will
| be wasted and the surface soil can be
kept finely pulverized and conserve the
moisture down at the roots. This meth
cd of watering is especially practicable
for transplanted trees, because their
roots are all in a small compass and
have not yet spread out the height of
the tree, as will be the case later. A
large tile forms an ideal box of this
kind. Soapsuds or waste water of any
kind can be used to good advantage in
this manner.-Guy f. Mitchell, in
Epitomist
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
CAMERA FOR INSECTS.
How to Adjust the Photographic Ap-
paratus and the Proper Method
of Exposure.

On the top of tripod or camera
stand may be fixed a double board,
hinged so that it will turn up at right
angles with it's base as in the accom-
panying sketch, and supported by
side rod or slotted bar. 1t will be seen
that if the camera is screwed to the up
right board, the lens will point down
ward to the ground. 1t is obvious that
if anything is placed on the floor, by
using the camera in this position the
object can be very readily seen on the
ground glass of the instrument. Books,
manuscripts and such like things that
are difficult to fix up can thus be very
easily copied, and with great saving
of time. The size does not matter. One
has only to lengthen or reduce the dis
tance between the object and the lens
to get the necessary reductions; but 1t
is not for this purpose that i now de-
scribe an arrangement | have success
fully used for some years in photo
graphing insects, such as butterflies,
beetles, or shells, leaves, single flowers,
etc. Much time can be saved, as one
has only to place the object on some
suitable support and photograph. Some
people may inquire about the shadow,
as it often mars the beauty of the photo
graph, though sometimes it adds very
materially to its relief. TO obviate this
/ place my object on a sheet of clear
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
A Profaue silence.

A story is going the rounds of golf match
between Rev. DIR. Sterret and Justice Har-
Ian of the United States supreme court. The
incident occurred at Chevy Chase Golf
club, one of the prominent organizations
near Washington, during meeting be-
TWEEN these two ardent golfers. The doctor
discovered that his ball teed up in tempting
utmost deliberation, he went through with
the preliminary "waggles," and with a su-
preme effort-missed the ball. For fully a
minute he gazed at the tantalizrg sphere
without uttering a word. At length JUS
tice Harlan remarked solemny: Doctor,
i;atd tnae was 'ne m4st proaans silehee ever
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
Feed md Pork Flavor.

There is vast difference in the quail
ity of pork. Some is sweet, tender and
juicy. Some is directly the reverse.
Feed is largely responsible for this
difference, says the Epitomist. In ex-
periments, conducted for the purpose
of determining the influence of food on
the quality of pork, it has been found
that milk, corn, barley, oats and peas
produce the most solid and best-fa-
vored meat. Potatoes produce a soft
pork. By-products Of the flour mill
make an inferior pork. Oil meals pro-
duce pork that is oily and of poor flavor
The meat made from feeding beans is
without favor, and hard and indigesti-
bic. Acorns do not make good pork.