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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-10-15
TEXAS DIVISION. T. P. A. OF A.

prestdert--DaD NJ. Las<er, La strange.
Secretary--James Ludlow. San An'o-
MO.
First Vice President--B. B. Gate'ey. Fort
Second vice Presidcnt-D. W. Michaux.
Houston.
Third Vice Presidsnt-C. s. E. Holland,
Victoria.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Post c, Thomas L. Freeland. Houston.
Post D. Frank Arnold, G, S. Austin and
g. v. Holland. San Antonio. Texas.
Post E, II. B. Marchbank. Dallas
Post f, c. @. Horton. Austin.
Pest G., H. J. Labatt, Galveston.
Post II, Thomas Farmer. Waco.
Post /. II. W. Singletary. Cors.cana.
Post J. r. L. Frye, Fort Worth.
Post X. s. @. Bennett, Gainesville.
Post l., G. A. Heilig, La Grange.
Post NJ, r. %. Wofford Cuero.
Post N C. H. Cox. Temple.
Post o. P. J. Burgess. Victoria.
Post p. Tom C. swope. Houston.
Post @, L. e. Harrison, Brenhan.
Post r. Ernest Kohlherg. Eel Pasc.
COMMITTEE CEAIRMEN.
Railroad. A. p. Foute, Fort Worth.
Press, Adolph Boldt. Houston.
Legislature. Joe Lee Jameson. Austin.
Hotel, Ernest Lasker. Galveston.
Employment, Paul f. Erb. Dallas.
Livery and transfer. A. D. Edgar. Paies-
tine
State physician. J. Allen Kyle, n. D..
Houston.
State chaplain, Homer r. Wilson, Fort
Worth.
Executive committee. Frank Arnold.
chairman, San Antonio; c. r.. Austin aud
C. V, Holland. San Antonio.
Note---The committee chairmen are also
members OF board OF directors.
OFFICERS OF THE UNITED CONNER
cIAL TRAVELLERS OF TEXAS.
Past Grand Counseilor-A. F, Deohman.
Dallas.
Grand Counselor 3. Mitchell. Dallas.
Grand Junior Counselor--Alt Dlecknsnn,
San Antonio.
Grand secretary-J, b. seeger, Dallas.
Grand Conductor. r Fickllu. Waco.
Grand PageB. K. James. San Antonio
Grand Sentinel--W. L. Kean, Fort
Worth
Executive Cemmittee--J N. sedbury OF
sberman aud W. c. Akard OF Houston.
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Some New York View.

New York, Oct 10. = The long promised
and much heraided production of "Tba
winters Tale" by wagenhais and KEN
per- was made known at the Grand opera
mouse Monday evening, in the presence q,
q large and swasger audience. which in
siuueo all OF the regular critics and many
hrsi nighters." Mr.. George Gould ana
ms family. Mayor Van Wyck R,ch.r,
Croker. United States senators Danaa n ar,
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opera house to the top s.lIr|

In Sag Harbor," james i 9
play, there will be no hercir.s
be, however, two ingsnues, N
by Mr.. Herne's daughter, ssd
part acted by Marion AbbcaG
The Country Judge, ana
comedy by Alice E. Ives ~
Eddy. viii be produced il z
January. NJ
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Keeping mt II.

PERSONS who have wants are always
open TO argument. and good persuasive
advertisement viii reach them every time
They are constant buyers, and il appealed
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me baltimore Sun Of recent date SAYS
In its criticism of THE Lion's Mouth.
me Lions Mouth" is enc of the oliss,
plays IN Frederick warde.s repertoire
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National president-L. v. La Taste,
Montg emery. Ala
National Secretary and Treasurcr-Louls
T. La Beaume room 4i2 Union Trust
Building. Seventh and Olive streets. ST
Louis, Mo.
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A paragraph from the New ORLEANS
items notice Of How Smith Met Jones'
reads as follows.
ne play possesses merit and was well
.snusrea 1t Is bn, just to the manags.
nn, 20 say that the large audience pres
s. 81 seemed 70 enjoy the performance.
several OF the actors gave eyIdenca
strong dramatic ability, especially NJ
meien Warren, who assumed The rnls ~
n ,, Added 10 striking personal charms
Miss Warren possesses dramatic Are az
her performance last evening was n,aas
ing feature OF the rendition"
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MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF.

The name of Bastien Lepage is some- times mentioned in connection with hers. There is no evidence that she was in love with him. The fact that he was extremely ugly would not have de- tered her from loving him. for she liked extremes, and her artistic eye could see in superlative ugliness the point where it meets beauty. A com monplace man she could never love; an unqualifiedly ugly man. yes. The truth to be that she admired the talent of Bastien Lepage, and for this reason she liked to work with him. At all events, she knew him for q short time only, and four weeks after her death poor Lepage followed her to the grave Nor is there any evidence whatever that this young girl was really capable of feeling the influence of the blind dety in favor of any man. Her intellectual development may have crushed the or dinary tendency of the young woman to have some hero of her heart.
 She was sought in marriage, but the
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SIGNIFICANT.
teeth.

The National Unitarian Church As- sembly is in session at Boston, and Bos- ton is a centre of Unltarianism and anti Imperialism. So 1t Is not very surpris- ing, though it is significant, to read that the Assembly has resolved that the United States can best preserve its na- tional honor by abandoning all claims to the ownership of and sovereignty over the Philippines, by recognizing their independence, by employing it's friendly offices in the restoration of or der. and by the negotiation of such treaties as shall secure them from mo- lestation by other foreign powers.
 Of course some will say that there is neither religion nor patriotism in the Unitarians. Others will argue that it is not economy to throw away $20,000,- 900. Still others will say that it is for the good of the world that the rebel Filipinos be thoroughly licked and then thoroughly Christianized and civilized. And a few will say that the Unitarians are both religious and patriotic.
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OTITE.
FLORETTE,

| The White Mans Burden.-"You used to say that I was all the world to you" Yes; and since l married you I can ap- preciate exactly how old man Atlas felt."-Brooklyn Life.
 II have never yet quite figured out" said the man who has succeeded pretty well, whether my wife has faith in my ability to do things, or whether her faith is in her ability to make me do them. ."-Indianapolis Journal
 "Yes," said Mrs. Nexdore, ''as a con- scientious woman I always feel I am bound to love my neighbors as myself. When they are so downright mean that I just can't do it I move into some other neighborhood,' ,''-Chicago Tribune.
 ''Is your father at home?" asked a caller. What is your name please?" inqiured the little girl. Just tell him it is his old friend, Bill" "Then I reckon he ain't at home. I heard him tell mamma if any bill came he wasn't at home. '-Tit-Bits.
 What is the highest position in the army, papa?" asked Sammy Snaggs.
 Commander in Chief" replied MT. Snaggs.
 'No."
 "Tlen what?"
 ''The chief of the war balloon corps" -Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
 Smoking in Holland" said a travel Ter lis so common that it is impossible to tell one person from another in room of smokers"
 How is any one who happens to be wanted picked out, then?" asked lis- tener.
 'Oh, waiter goes round with pair of bellows and blows the smoke from be- fore each face till he recognizes the person called for, Fact, gentlemen. "- Swlndom Advertiser.
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CIGARETTES IND CRIME.

So much has been said lately about the harmlessness of cigarettes that public opinion concerning them has perhaps been somewhat modified. But a counter-blast of a very vigorous kind is now made by MT. Terrence of the H. linois State reformatory. Heretofore
 the cigarette question has been discus- sed mainly in its bearing upon the physical and intellectual health of the smoker, but MT. Terrence does not hes itate to declare that cigarettes are mak- Ing more criminals of the boys than are the saloons. The records of the Illinois State reformatory show that of sixty three inmates, averaging F years of age, fifty-eight were cigarette smokers and of 13S averaging IA years of age, 125 were cigarette smokers In fact, 92 per cent. of all the inmates confined in that penal institution were addicted to the use of the cigarette
 It doesn't seem to be quite clear that cigarettes make youthful criminals. but there isn't any reason to doubt that youthful criminals smoke the nasty things.
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wooing seems to have made no inn press upon her further than to gratify a vanity. When a prince asked her for her hand she rejoiced, forgetful of the fact that Paris is the happy hunting ground of all the European princes who are bankrupt in morals and in purse. Another evidence of her in- capacity for romantic attachment tis that when on a certain occasion two young and wealthy suitors presented themselves she worte to her father for advice, disclaiming all personal pref erence and saying that both were the same to her. The woman who has out lived the susceptibility of early feeling or the man who has passed his time amid the gay heartlessness of a diss- pated life could not have been more apatbetfc to amorous attachment than was this lively young girl-The Quar- tier Latin.
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THE WAY THE FRENCH SEE TT.
 At the beginning of March there was horrible explosion near Toulon at the Lagouban naval magazine, causing a serious destruction of property and a terrible loss of life. Lord Salisbury at once instructed the British ambassador in Paris 10 express the sympathy of her Majesty's government to that of France; the Prince of Wales happened to be passing through Toulon and tele- graphed his condolences to the mayor; the British press referred to the calam- ity in feeling terms. Subsequently the Queen contributed to the fund being raised for the sufferers and the rela- tives of the slain. All these actions ap- peared to the Englishmen to be decent and proper, but to numbers of French men they must have appeared to be so many acts of hypocrisy, for shortly after the explosion occurred the cry was raised in the popular and unquoted French press that Great Britain was at the bottom of the crime-she had hired miscreants to destroy the Toulon arse nal
 This view was first propounded by Libra Parole Circulation between 250,- 900 and 500,O0O) in long historical dis quisition entitled Les Precedents de la Catastrophe de Toulon," (March 12), pointing out that 1t was the kind of crime England has habitually made.- National Review.
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to eighteen hours When cold they are fed to the horses and cattle doing heavy work at the rate of four loaves a day, viz, one in the morning, one at noon, and one about 4 o'clock and one at night. With the last about ten pounds of poor hay are given. It is claimed for this method that horses can do much more work on the same amount of food, and that 1t is good for their teeth
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4 LANCE MME.

The Social Democrats of Massachu-
 setts are talking large and getting ready to conduct an aggressive campaign for their State ticket Their platform is a
 rather extensive one, but they probably
 feel that it is well enough to ask for
 what they want while they are asking.
 It begins with demand for the amend
 ment of tour antiquated federal consti-
 tuition" in order to ensure the complete
 control of the government "by all the
 people, irrespective of sex'' Woman
 suffrage is liberally recognized. An other important principle advocated is
 the public ownership of all public utili- ties, franchises, mines, gas wells and all industries now controlled by monopolies, trusts or combinations. As corollary to this proposition all useful inventions are to be free to the people, and the in
 ventor is to be remunerated from the public treasury. Similarly, life and fire insurance are to be assumed by the State, and national insurance is ad- vocated for working people against &C., cident and lack of employment, while pensions are proposed for old age. Pub lie works for the employment of the unemployed should be instituted, the public credit being utilized for the pur- pose. Other propositions include the eight-hour day, the standardization of labor laws, the popular initiative and referendum trial by jury in all cases of contempt of court, tax on incomes and inheritances, a more efficient en- ployers' liability law, the abolition of war, and finally the public ownership of the ice industry in the metropolitan district.
 The Social Democrats of Connecticut will feel encouraged by the ambition and activity of their brethren over the border.
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F'R1NCE'S N4T4L LEA GUE.

Germany has had naval league for some time, and as France doesn't mean to let Germany get ahead of her in preparations for peace she has now a naval league. M. Barbey, Senator and ex-Minister of Marine, is at the head of it. and ex-President Casimir- Perier and other prominent public men are members. At the opening meeting an address was delivered by Captain de Fraysseix Bonnin, who spoke of the rapid increase in naval armament all over the world, and the startling vic tories of Japan and the United States
 England, he said, was preparing appar- ently 'to render the whole globe subser- vient to her naval might" Germany, he argued, had taken the Emperors word for it that her future lies upon the sea, and he also referred to the for midabie maritime strength of Italy. In France it was not money which was lacking, he declared, but the education of the public. The word "decadence" was, perhaps, excessive in regard to the navy, but it was insufficient in regard to the merchant marine. France made too little use of the great sea routes. Maritime trade was. nevertheless, the
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real source of peoples wealth, and at the same time the nursery of a war navy. Unlike the army the navy, he declared, taken as a whole, was force which cost the state nothing. In war ceeded in destroying obstacles and keep ing the routes open. History showed that sacrifices made for the navy had never been thrown away. They had to give way at Fashoda, and it was be- cause the French navy was not strong enough.
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FASHION NOTES.
Skirt Problems Are Not All Easy.

No woman who wants to dress in the best style can afford, just because the sheath fit is so much talked about, to consider the skirt question simple and entirely settled for herself. While the sheath skirt is the reigning sort, there is no relaxation in the search for nov cities in skirts, and when found these are as desirable as new and acceptable notions in dress always are. Thus a young woman of suitable height and slenderness would be so finely outftted in a skirt like that of to-day's picture that she'd be foolish to think of being content with skirt whose only merit was it's accurate fit about the hips. For
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such figure this gown sets an excel- tan cheviot, and the checked goods was cloth showing brown, tan and white. This method of having revers and col lar match the overskirt is a much fav ored way of proving that the jacket was made especially for the one skirt.
 No one need feel that a skirt cannot be worn if it is not made sheath, even if it is cloth. Skirts have been close about the hips for some time, because as soon as women realized that the wheel skirt must hang in a pair of pleats at each side of the saddle they saw that such skirts were becoming for all uses. Bringing the edges to- gether to well below the round of the back and fastening them is merely late development of the idea. Fashions are always developments and may all of sudden burst into an exaggeration from very slight suggestion but the germ of a fashion is alive for at least two seasons before the eXaggeration comes. The question for the careful woman is which of the many germs she may see will develop into fixed fash ion Since the present skirt was grad ual development, it's forerunners are susceptible of encouragement to confor- mity with it, this much more readily than many women think
 FLORETTE
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RAISES RHEUMATIC POTATOES.
Stranded Shippers Prosperity in New
 Field for Curing Ills.

oti oiidSu t1hIppel J | IloSpeIlly III NeN
 Field for Curing Ills.
 The Jonesport correspondent of the
 New York Sun says: The msot famous
 man in eastern Washington county to.
 day is Caleb Cushing Clark, a Cape Coo fisherman, who came ashore at Bailey's
 Mistake in company with his schooner
 during the gale of September IA, 1895 l The schooner landed among the rocks l and alder bushes twenty rods beyond | high-water mark, and lies where she struck. Clark discreetly remained be- | low decks until the storm had subsided, when he went to a neighbours house and was taken down with an attack of rheumatic fever, which kept him in bed three months. The owner of the house where he stayed liked him so we'll that he obtained employment in the sardine fisheries as soon as he was able to work making him so contented that he has never wished to return to Province town,
 lHOuSil 1idlh. C6H liiutt dH dLldCu- ment on Fame on account of the perils he has seen, his chief claim to dlstinc- tion lies in the possession of remarka- ble breed of potatoes, the original seed- ling of which was given him by his benefactor for the purpose of curing rheumatism He began to carry this potato in his pocket in March, 1894. At that time it was larger than a hens egg, hard and full of juice. During the summer it began to wrinkle and grow tlabby, so that Clark thought of throw ing it away for new one, and would have done so several times had he not been assured that to shift "rheuma- tiz potato" meant bad luck. During the next year it had fallen away to the size of an English walnut and become hardened, lying in his pocket like g block of wood.
 Meanwhile Clark's rheumatism had entirely disappeared, so one day in the spring of 1896, after getting badly wet ted from dipping sardines he hung his trousers on a fence to wash out in the rains and left the osseous potato in one of his pockets In June the rheumatism returned with fury, which reminded Clark of his potato. On searching his trousers pocket for the talsman he found it had sprouted and partially de- cayed. Remembering the good it had done him, Clark planted the tuber in the garden and procured q fresh potato for his maladys He continued to ache all summer until the potato which had proved so useful to him had produced its crop of tubers, when he selected one from the lot of six and put it in his pocket.
 That was three years ago. Since then Clark has been propagating and selling rheumatic potatoes every sea- son. He has sold individual tubers for as much as S1 for single specimen, though his regular price is 30 cents. He has received orders from all parts of New England and as yet nobody has complained of failure to cure. This spring Boston speculator offered him five hundred dollars cash for his entire stock of about two barrels. Clark laughed at him and continued at work on his hotbets for growing early potato sprouts.
 He intends to plant about two acres this season.
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x Writing of an excellent food for horses, Consul Hughes of Coburg says: Potato bread is used by the natives of Thuringia to feed their horses especial ly when they are worked hard in cold weather. The animals thrive on it, and their health and strength are excellent. The method of preparation is simple and inexpensive The potatoes are slow 5ly stewed till soft; they are then nash ed thoroughly, and an equal quantity of corn meal is added. It is mixed into H thick paste, with small quantity Of salt The paste is then divided into four-pound loaves and allowed to bake till thoroughly done. In the slow coun- try ovens it generally takes from fifteen
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The Savannah News gives an inter- ksting description of a big levee now in progress of construction around the en- tire tract of twelve hundred acres of land on Hutchinson's Island recently purchased by the Georgia and Alabama Railroad company for terminal facili- ties. The levee will be thirty feet at the base and three feet higher than the highest water shown by the records. The work is now about one-half com- pleted. The top furnishes a level walk about five feet broad. The great stretch nf embankment will soon be carpeted with green. Bermuda moss will be used No add to the banks strength, and work men will soon begin putting on the sod. with prophetic eye the superintendent of the work already sees the day when ladies and gentlemen will cross the riv er to walk along the broad levee and drink in the refreshing breezes that blow on summer afternoons from down the stream.
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It is stated that the first cost of build ing a fleet of Atlantic liners is trifie compared with the money spent In run ming them In less than three years it will exceed the cost of construction such is the constant expenditure in wages, repairs and renewals.
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The Rumsey farm, says the Albany Argus, (which has been chosen as the site for the Buffalo Pan-A American Ex- position, is situated on Scajaquada Creek. Scajaquada Creek, 1t seems proper to add, is not far from Check towaga, although more remote from Montezuma, Sempronius, Busti and Ekaneateles'
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Worcester Is not far behind New Ha- ven in some things. A Worcester min ister calls the players of progressive whist and euchre gamblers.
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The railroad builders are busy in Af- rica. The new railroad just completed from Beira, the East African port, to Salisbury, in Mashonaland, is of two- foot gauge, but will soon be widened to three and one-half feet. This road will Facilitate the importation of mining machinery into northern Rhodesia, where gold is already being produced in considerable quantities. Another nar- row-gauge line, ITO miles long, is to be built to the coal fields, near Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi, the completion of which will quicken gold mining by providing the fuel that is so lacking in the gold fields. Arrangements have been made besides for the extension of the railroad already completed from Cape Town to Buluwayo, beyond the latter city to Lake Tanganyika
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each h. eertion. Five Cents Word for full week lseven times).
 Display advertisements. per inch. one Tn, cents; one week. S320; one month. $1o; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births. Mar rlages, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents each. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited 10 their own immediate business (all matter to be unobjectionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale etc.
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The petroleum outfit in southern Cal thousand barrels a day, and it is all consumed upon the Pacific coast. It was discovered about ten years ago, and has been in use for about five years. A tank steamer runs regularly between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, car- rying refined petroleum to the latter market. The Southern Pacific runs it's local trains by oil, and it is also con- stunned as fuel in several manufacturing establishments in this section. There is no smoke and no cinders.