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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
THEIR END MOsT PITIFUL.
when Indian women BecOme Too
old 20 Work They Are
Left TO Die.

The attentions of the United States
government has lately been called to a
barbarous custom that is still being
practiced among the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache Indians in Oklahoma terri
tory, says the Chicago Chronicle.
The Indians of these three tribes,
while living under the management of
an Indian agent, are comparatively civ
ilized and do not go on the warpath,
but work for their living as farmers
But they have no love in their hearts
for one of their own people after that
person has passed his OF her age of
usefulness. An aged squaw, after she
reaches the age of so years, is sent into
the fields and left there to die, unless
some sympathetic white person comes
along and sends the poor old woman
to the Indian agency, where she may
be taken care of at the expense of the
government.
Travellers in the reservation may
hear the distressing cries of some de-
serted woman at most any time they
care to listen. The women are given a
few days rations, clothed in their best
garments and taken into the fields
amid the horses and cattle. There
they are left alone. Not being strong
enough to get away, they have to re
main there and die. The plains Of this
Indian reservation are strewn with
the bones of those who have been left
to die because they we're getting tOC
old to work any more.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
sHAKRsPEARE IN vIReINIA.
Sudden Ending o "~AIeFehant Of Ven,
Ice' when the Steamboat
Whistle Blew.

Once during the days of his early
struggles Booth, a contemporary tells,
was transforming, down in Virginia
at a place called Lees Landing. The
improyised theater was a tobacco ware
house, and it was crowded by the
planters from miles around. Booth
and his companions had arranged to
take the weekly steamer expected late
that night, and between the acts were
busy packing up, says the New York
World. The play was "The Merchant
of Venice and they were Just going
on for the trial scene when they heard
a whistle, and the manager came run
ming in to say that the steamer had arr
rived and would leave again in ten
minutes. AS that was their only
chance for a week Of getting away
they were in a terribly quandary.
IF we explain Matters said the
manager, "the audience viii think they
are being cheated, and we shall have
a free fight. The only thing is for you
fellows to get up some sort of a
n~atural-like impromptu ending for the
piece and ring down the curtain. Go
right ahead, ladies and gentlemen, and
take your u from Ned here" and he
hurried away to get his luggage
aboard. Ned" of course was Booth,
who resolved to rely upon the ignor-
ance ofthe Virginians of those days to
pull him through all right. So when
old George Rugles, who was playing
Shylock, began to sharpen his knife on
his boot Booth walked straight up ia
him and said, solemnly.
you are bound to have the flesh, are
you?R You bet your hfel" said Rug.
giles. "Now, III make you one NOR
offer, continued Booth. "In addition
to this bag Of ducats, I'll throw in two
kegs Of niggerhead terback, a shotgun
and a couple of the best coon dogs IL
the stated "Tm darned IL I don't d.
it!8 responded ShyIaek much to th,
appreciation ef the audience, who wer,
tobacco faisers and coon hunters to
man. eApd to show that there's noill
feeling, pntein Portaa 3riu6 al
with a Virginny reel"
When the company got aboard tn,
steamer the captain, who had wit
messed the conclusion of the play, re
marked: "Td like to see the whole o
that play some time, gentlemen. I'm
blamed if I thought that fellow Shake
speare had so much snap in him."
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
LOVE STORY WELL IoLD.
Young MANS clever Method ~ win-
ming q Confession from
Hts Adored One.

She was pouring at d tea that afternoon
and She looked unusually b~ewitching, says
tile Smart Set. He was sitting at her let I
q bower Of PALMS. that almost concealed him.
he was holding one Of her hands under
cover Of the tableeloth, while she tried
to pour with the other. She did not look
al him as he talked, but he knew by her
color and the little culver Of the hand he
holding that she heard everything he
q. Dearest" he murmured, as she ssnt
one cup off without a spoon and another
SIZED only with whipped cream dearest,
Il You don't mind my saying all this to you,
Just drop a spoon. Couldn't you manage
ft21 "A clatter Of silver and more color IN
the girls face, as in STOPPING to pick up the
spoon ne kissed her hand. Spurred by
this success, he went on: dearest, h-t
You return it-that is, if you love me, you
knbW-just put three humps Of sugar into
the next cup you pourEsY-e-s.' Or, # you
don't, two, to spell Me-" One, two, three!
The tiny cup was almost full, and in her
haste to hide her confession she covered the
three Jumps hastily with chocolate and
cream and sent them off. He asked his
mother az they drove home il she had en-.
ioyed herself. "Ugh, mol" was her disguised
reply. Such horrible stuff to drink as they
gave one. Why, my cup was half full o.
Nu1arl"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

The term gardener implied much
more a few generations ago than it
does to-day. Young men paid heavy
premiums to get in as apprentices
under learned gardeners, and when at
the end of the term they were in
vested with the "Blue Apron" most
of them would compare favorably, in
general intelligence, with the gradu-
ates of u modern universities, OF
these broadly educated men, a notable
one, Louis Menand, Of Albany, N. Y,
recently passed away in his ninety
third year. He was born in the prov
ince Of Burgundy, France, and main
tanned his interest in flowers and in
general affairs until his death-Mee-
hans Monthly.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

stand, every other medicine. but WELD on
The instant to IS Drops" To enable all sui,
ferers to test this wonderful remedy, we will
send free a trial bottle on receipt Of two 2
cent tampstopay for mailing. Large bottles
oE300 doses Sl.00, sent prepaid by mail or eX.
press. "5 Drops" is a preventive as we'll az
8scurative for Rheumatism, S~ciatica, Neu,
ralgia, Gout, Dyspepsia Backache, Asthma
Hay Fever, Catarrh, Liver and Kidney
Troubles, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Nerv
GUS and Neuralgia Headache Ear8che
Toothache, Heart Weakness, La Grippe
Malaria, Paralysis, Creeping Numbness, and
q long list Of other ills. Write us in hasts
and stop your suffering Agents wanted
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co.. 100 Lake
Street, Chicago, III.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
SPARKS N FLASHES.


Electricity as a motor for regular
railway trains has been found IS per
cent. cheaper than steam in the exper-
iments recently made at Berlin o n the
Wansee-Bahn.
It is said that the electrical effects
20 be exhibited at the forthcoming
Pan-American exposition in Buffalo,
N. Y, viii exceed anything Of their
kind ever shown before. The enore
nous energy Of the Niagara power
plant will be available for the o
templated Examinations, and this will
mean that a food Of electrical energy
will be poured in to maintain the
really marvellous display Of electric
light that viii be shown.
Mr.. Il. Edmunds, Of London, has de-
vised a means of insulating cables
with paper. His idea consists of thor
oughly impregnating paper with a
mixture Of resinous material and OK
idized oils, which are reduced to a
thin consistency by the application Of
heat. The paper IS then immersed
in this solution and allowed to be-
come completely saturated with the
mixture. When It is Withdrawn from
this bath the permeated paper 10
wound spirallyround the conductor.
The most economical night is that
whose spectrum is confined TO the Wis
ible rays, and which does not involve
the simultaneous emulsion Of either
infra-red or ultraviolet rays Elec.
trio lig mar nsthia respee dis
tiact advantage on the older methods
Of lighting, and electric luminescence
decidedly so. But no form o. light
hitherto produced equals that Of the
glowworm in efficiency. The light Of
luminous organisms onIy contains On
infnitesimaI amount of heat.
A new telephone fire alarm system
has just been patented, the whole sys
tenn being operated by magnetic cur
rent and dry batteries. After the sys
tenn is once installed the only thing
to get out of order is the burning OIL.
occasionally of a fuse, which may b.
quickly repaired. A separate wire il
used for each fire district, and an!
number of telephones may be con
nected with any district wire. B!
means Of this system every house ant
factory along the line Of the wire
can be connected with the alarm wire
and thus protection may be had at
low cost. The wires can also be uset
to connect with the long-distance tel
sphone far other dse5.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
Dsafness oannot ne ourea

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only u way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu-
eous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inhamed you have a rumbline
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it il
entirely closed deafness lis the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken oui
and this tube restored to its normal con.
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases Of Of ten are caused by catarrh
which is nothing but an inhamed condition
Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured BY HALLS Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars, free.
+. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

wealth has large wings. The hummingbird
and the albatross or the condor, and all
between, can fly. An improvident person
who has but small means is necessarily inn
provident in a small way, but give him
wealth and he would be improvident in q
large way. Wealth has never yet been
tethered for a long period. 1t finally breaks
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

NO matter what aiis YOU, headache to &
cancer, you viii never get well until your
bowels are put right, CascaFets help nature,
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
.Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has G. o. G..
atRmped on it. Beware Of limitations.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
Il HeIned Hin.

He-A friend Of mine, just returned from
Lapland, tells me the people there depend
largely on the reindeer.
She-Do they? Thought it was the snow,
love. A moment later she was in lap[and.
ZPhiladelphia Press.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Tackleton-nTm glad your yacht beat
Bragman's. He was blowing so much be-
fore the race. It's your turn now. He
laughs best who laughs last Mainsel-
Eyes, but say, rather: He laughs best. who
luffs first philadelphia Press.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
Made - HnIr CnrI.

'Since marriage I have had no need Of
enrling irons" said Mrs. De Tanques.
"But still your hair is perfectly dressed,
What's the reason?''
"Well, when you've got a husband you'll
fnu that he can come home at any old hour
in the morning with an excuse that would
make your hair curl. "-Kansas City Star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Mike-What's the difference between
you and che load Of dirt you r cart
ing2
Pat-L don't know-what is?
You're q son Of toll and it's q ton OF
soil. n-Harlem Life.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Alice-She says she married him because
be was different from the other men she
knew.
Mands-He must have proposed to herr
Town Topics.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Don't you find that Mr.. AsteTs poems, %
baid that young poets misguided admirer,
''are full of words that burn?" well, no"
replied the editor, II never put them to
that test; I merely drop them ia the waste
basket. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Tramp Caught stealing a ride)-'Mr.
Brakeman, if you force me to leave this
train I'll boycott this road and ride
over It again" indianapolis News.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

His Meaning.-"What do you mean when
you say she lampooned her husbandf y
asked the magistrate Of the witness. Il
mean she threw a lighted lamp at him, F"
the witness eXplained.-Pittsburgh ChTon'
icle-Ielegraph.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

If Won have been smashing around with a
club, you must have remarked that that
way Of acting has its drawbacks. Try the
other plan; say kind things occasionally;
do kind things occasionally, Be ~considerate
of Others, and people will like you better;
you viii suit yourself better. Atchison
Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Many Lines There.-Telet-"To be sue
cessful in business a man must confne him
self to one line" Askit-FWhat if he is 6
paimistP"-Baltimore American.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

II requires no experience to dye with
PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. Simply boiling
your goods in the dye is all that's necessary.
Sold by all druggists.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

The Best Prescription for Chilla
and Fever is a bottle Of GRovE's T~AsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. tits iron and quininein
Rtasteless form. No cure mo pay. Price, Soc,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Do you whine? Do you make others mis-
cradle, as well as yourself? If you must
whine, do it in the seclusion of your own
room. You have no right to be a public
nest-Atehieon Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
John f. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Stoughton-"Did you have a good time
at the banquet last night?' Manhattan
splendid. l drank myself into insensibil-
Transcript.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Kissing was tabooed by the Essences. The
latter are all dead now, but we understand
that the former is still in fashion.-Star Of
Hope.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

A great many people ''make fun of you"
Don't give themaRRy more occasion than
you can help.-Atehison Globe.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

To Cure n Cold I'm One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund moneyifitfails to cure. Csc.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

'How do SOu know he is a great pianist?
q have talked with i .n-Iown Topics.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Fireworks give a very appropriate recep
ton to a firebrand-Town Topics.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22

Nowadays the office, bowling gracefully
10 the inevitable, seeks the boss.-Puck.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
Bill Arp's Letter.
Bill Likes to See the Little Ones at Play--All
Love Their GRANDPA.

his father was a native of Scotland
OF course he was or he could never
have bought those lands. The Indian
tribes all liked the Scotchmen. for
they treated them fairly and kindly
in trading and taught them the use
of the cross bow and long bow. These
Scotchmen frequently married Indian
maidens, the daughters of the chiefs,
and in course of time their halfbreed
children became the chiefs. Such was
Ross and Ridge and Mcintosh and
Osceola. Major Colbert, another half
breed whose Indian name was Itta-
wanda, became chief of the Chiclla-
saws. He was a great favorite with
Mrs. Dolly Madison, the presidents
wife, for he was q splendid specimen
of Indian and Scotch manhood and
was smart and well educated. Mrs.
Madison gave him a pair of peafowls
and he brought them home and from
that pair every peafowl in Mississippi
has descended. This pair was many
years afterwards given to Colonel
Gordon's uncle, Josiah Walton, and by
him to his sister, Mrs. Doggett, and
the male bird lived to be seventy-two
years old. A pair of this same stock
has been recently. presented to the
city of Memphis for their ZOO. | had
no idea that peafowls lived to such
great afe, but 1 do know that we
have been breeding them for over
twenty years and have given away
great many and / never knew one to
die a natural death.
But I am tired-travel worn, for no
hours are mine; they are the rail
roads by night as well as by day and
my rest is broken up and | begin to
realize that<I cannot stand it much
longer. Ben Franklin's definition of
man was that he is "a bundle of hab-
it's and the older he grows the
stronger his habits hold him. The
very word habits comes from the Latin
"habeo,' to hold, to bind.
BILL ARP.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
are wide awake in this town and are
going to build monument to their
heroic dead, of whom about 1920 are
buried here. They called me here to
help them. Is. A.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
No RIGHr mo- uGLINEss.

The woman who is lovely in face, form
and temper will always have friends, but
one who would be attractive must keep
her health. If she is weak, sickly and
all run down, she will be nervous and
irritable If she has constipation or kid
ney trouble, her impure blood will cause
pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a
wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is
the best medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify
the blood. 1t gives strong nerves, bright
eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complex
ion. 1t will make a good-looking, charm
ing woman of rundown invalid. Only
so cents at all drug stores.
;,, 4hn Leu 20 IN nSfnndN
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
Groves Tonic broke up days spell of fever which
physician thought would last several weeks.

q During my recent illness your Chill Tonic proved O
beneficial efect being highly endorsed by my family ply
sician. bottles broke up days spell of fever which
first thought by the doctor would last for several weeks
Your excellent remedy having tremendous sale through
this section than all other Chill Toncs combined
as | am informed by various druggists.
Yours truly, A. ROSCOWER,
tT6 r. Goldsboro NC
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23

Whisky is the key to an unsteady
gait.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23


SYM nIHaG pm
INTERPRETATION -HH
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-14

today appointed a committee 70 arrange
the order Of business for the remainder
of the session but the selection was not
announced.
senator Cullom gave notice 10 The
caucus that he would call ~ his Dill
providing a form Of government for the
Hawaiian Islands as soon as the vote
could be taken on the currency pill to-
morrow. and no disposition was mani
tested 10 antagonize him In this pur-
pose.
The caucus also discussed the ques-
tioh OF the division Of the minor pat
ronage Of the Senate but adjourned be-
fore concluding this portion ~ It's work.
Senator Kyle of South Dakota, at
tended and participated IN the proceed
Ings OF the caucus for the first time.
Mr. Teller was recognized 10 reply TO
the speech Of Mr.. Allison delivered yes
terday. He had waited In vain, he said,
for an explanation Of the House Dill
which technically was the measure I'M
der confederation He approached all
questions relating TO the finances OF
the country with suspicion. He thought
the House bill ought 10 be considered
carefully as Il might possibly become
the law. IL had been drafted by COM
mission composed of acute lawyers and
there were force and strength behind II.
Mr.. Teller took strong issue with Mr..
Allison who claimed that the United
states was not on the gold standard
He said:
I'VE are not on the gold standard ex-
cept by the unauthorized action Of the
treasury. We are on what Is sometimes
called limping silver standard and
sometimes a limpng gold standard.
Nobody outside OF the United States
has considered the United States on the
gold standard. but II may be said that
we practically have been forced by
executive usurpation and transgresslon
of the law 10 proceed as II we were on
gold standard
Mr.. Teller declared this pending bill
was to be enacted into law because the
gold standard advocates were afraid
that the American people would put
some man in the White House who
would not !ay0r the gold standard, the
purpose being to embody the gold
standard into the statutes so that IL
could not be disturbed without great
difficulty.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-14
DECISION IN THE KENTUCKY CASE
Judge Taft Holds that the Federal Court Has No Jurisdiction In
the State Officers COntest-proceedngs
in State Courts.

Cincinnati. Feb. l4-Holding that the
federal court has no jurisdiction in the
contests In Kentucky, Judge Taft this
afternoon refused to grant the appli-
cation for injunctions against the Ken
lucky state board Of elections and the
Democratic contestants for State Of
fees other than governor and lieuten-
ant governor.
Judge Taft finished reading his opln-
ion at $50 q. m. In which he denied the
applications for lnjunctlons In both
cases in the Kentucky suits After
citing the laws showing that the feder-
al court had no Jurisdiction in such
cases he reviewed the Goebei election
law as the most infamous statute that
had ever come before the attention Of
a court and also denounced in vigorous
terms the conditions that have existed
in Kentucky and that are cited In the
bin OF facts. But he held that It was
merely q matter Of law with the court.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-14
salvation Army Anniversary.

New York. Feb. 1.-THE Salvation
Army celebrated the twentieth ami.
vcrsary OF its establishment In the
United States with a largely attended
meeting In Carnegie Hall last night.
william. the infant son OF Commander
and Consul Booth-Tucker. was public
~ dedicated 20 God and the army.
The Salvation Army outlook In the
United states for the twentieth CEN
tury" was the subject OF an address
by Commander Booth-Tucker. He said
In part;
In the last twenty years the number
OF persons attending our sessions In
America who have knelt at the penltent
bench has been 100000 and. baslng an
estimate on these figures. the army win
have million saved souls 60 its credit
az the end % the next twenty years
That IL not so bad The army is reach
Ing the people. while In a single de-
nomination TODAY li3 churches lack
pastors. We have given 1875, 900 meals
TO the starving poor. and IN the next
twenty years we VIII give Is O0O, 900
meals. The three farm colonies started
NJ cos, ~ 10000, are n success. and
had we $500 900 we would start more
like them We have secured work for
$500 people aud win get employment
for 100000 In the twenty years 20 come.
snd rescue them from crime and
drink"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-14
STEEL TRUST FORMED.
Twenty five Out of Twenty nine
Firms Enter the Combine.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE long
talked-of combination Of the steel sheet
mills Of the country was formed at a
meeting here today, twenty-five con-
Germs out Of twenty-nine being repre-
scented.
The capital stock was fixed at s52,-
100000 OF which s2s, 100000 will be pre-
ferred, carrying a seven per cent divi-
dend. and s26.OO000O common Ten
million Of the preferred will be treas
ury stock and the entire s26,0 900 Of
the common stock will be placed In a
New York bank for a year.
None OF the stock will be put on the
market, the mill owners taking Il all.
The concerns outside the combine are
the Apollo Iron a. Steel Co Of Wander
grift. Pa. w. ID. Woods & Co. Mckees-
port. Pa, Zug & Co., Pittsburg, and the
Whitaker Iron Co. Of Wheeling. These
four firms control fifty-hye mills aud
the combine sixteen mills The name
OF the new combine will probably be
American Steel Sheet Company
The company expects TO have all de-
tails arranged to start business within
thirty days.