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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

price of stocks! Can't you get along
without milk and honey so long as you
see that stocks are booming? Don't
talk about your pitiful necessities when
you can take a look at the stock list
and see that sugar trust advanced five
points yesterday. Go to. Wall street
is the nerve center of the country. If
it is prospecting you must be prosper
ing. If you say you aren't you're a liar.
At any rate, you are a democrat, which
is worse!"
But here we see Wall street itself
in trouble. Stocks tumble and in sym
pathy Herewith grain tumbles like
wise. In the house of representatives
Hon. Jonathan Deliver burns incense
before the Canton joss-calls upon the
whole world to fall down and worship
him as the most marvellous wonder
worker that ever came up the pike-and
at that very moment the holy of holes
is in a panic-WalI street is eaten up
by bears as were the bad little boys
who jeered at the baldheaded prophet.
Stocks go off five, ten, twenty-five
points and wheat comes tumbling after.
Wild-eyed men run from bank to bank,
only to be cast into outer darkness
when they ask for loans on giIt-edged
securities. London calls for gold and
there is no gold. The devil is to pay and
there is not even any pitch hot, Where
is the joss and what is he doing as this
time of stress and trial? Why is he not
making medicine, beating his gong and
pronouncing exorcisms against the. evil
genii who are puncturing prosperity's
tire? Where is William the Wizard +:
Where is he at?
These are momentous questions
They require immediate answer. For
we repeat that a joss who sleeps or
duty is in imminent peril. He may be-
mighty in all other respects, but if he
kcan't be relied upon to keep things
booming in Wall street his tribe is ac,
cursed and his name is Mud. Let some
one kick the soothsayer in the ribs anC
give him a tip that there is blood OF
the moon.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

There IS q story going about town
lust now concerning a famous man Of
letters who visited Washington re-
Gently and was fairly deluged with in
vitstions to breakfasts and nncheona
dinners and suppers, and good
ness only knows what else during his
stay, says the Post OF that sity. He
accepted almost none of them. and mp
peared, SO far as / know, at but one
dinner party, There he sat next the
Young daughter of a noted naval OH.
Ger. Her vocabulary is Of a kind pc
cuiiar to young girls, but she ratified
away at the famous man without 3
moments respite. He for his part
wanted to talk to his hostess on the
other side of him. but the laxative
girl didn't give him a chance. She
asked him ali sorts Of questions. 4
was during a pause in the genera
conversation that she said to him
SIM awfully struck on Shakespeare
Don't YOU think he's terribly interest
ing? Everybody liste#edtehear tn
great mans brilliant reply, for, as
| Shakespearean scholar, he has feV
peers. Yes he said, solemnly, l d.
think he is interesting. l think he
more than that. l think ShakesPear
is just simply too cute for anything
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A Detroit man, whose wife was
to San Francisco, accompanied
Chicago. When he put her on thu
in the latter city he called the POI
him, tore a fve-dollar bill in twu
gave the negro half. There" h
IF you look after my wife wen, 81
give you the other half when 81
ishes her journey" The man the
good-by to his wife, and in the
ment Of parting forgot to give /
half Of the bill. After his wife
at San Francisco, the Detroit N,
a letter from her saying that the.
asked her for half of a bill. She
understand, but she tore a doll
in two and gave him half, keep
other half herself.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10
Coet of Huekina Mittena.


It is not generally known that hun
dreds of thousands of yards of cotton
flannel are used each year in Kansas
in the manufacture of gloves for corn
huskers. A pair Of gloves made OF
this material lasts only a few days, but
the flannel is the only material that
conforms to the hands and at the same
time gives comfort and ease to the
husker. Wesley SeiP, aschamPion corn
husker in Republic county, Kan. has
been figuring on the amount of this
material used this season in that coun-
ty. He says enougrs money was spent
there for huskers' mittens to pay for
a good farm. There are 444 quarter
sections Of land in a township. Two
huskers to the quarter would make 2ss
huskers in a township, or a total in
the county Of 5;70O. Each husker will
use four yards Of cotton flannel, max
ing a total for the county Of 23,O4O
yards. This, at IS cents yard. amounts
to s~4,147.2O. There are so counties in
Kansas which this year produced, on an
average, as much corn as Republic copn
~. If ull the men and women who are
now engaged in saving the state, 5r PIE.
nomeual cnnn-on@
made Oh cotton flannel thesum paid out
for this fabric alone viii aggregate
S2OO.OOO.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10
Tons OF Pudding.


A Philadelphia woman has contract
ed to furnish 5000 pounds Of plum pud-
ding for dinners. For five years she
has been systematically making these
luscious desserts, and her orders have
been constantly increasing. There is
not a point relating to a plum pudding
that she not considered and expert
mented upon. There is not an iota in
the preparation of the whole 5000
pounds which she does not personally
superintend. To give some idea OF a
single mixing. containing 1000 pounds,
here are the ingredients required: Nine
hundred eggs, $50 pounds of suet. 200
pounds of ~curronts, 100 pounds Of raj
sins, the juice and thinly grated rind
of $50 lemons, $50 pounds of sugar, so
loaves of bread (crumbed), candied or
ange and lemon peel, spices galore, to-
gether with 20 quarts Of brandy. The
recipe for the puddiBgs was given her
by a friend, who paid quite an amount
to obtain it from a celebrated London
chef IS years ago. 1t takes three days
to complete each lot, after the ingredi
ents have been prepared and every
thing made ready to mix.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

The Inhabitants Of New York were
astonished on September Z by an in
vasionof butterflies, which suddenly APP
peared by thousands, iuttering about
the tail buildings, alighting on the
grass in the parks, spreading their
broad, o~range-hued sails above the
roaring traffic in the streets, and even
threading the why maze of the Brook
Iyn bridge. They belonged TO the va
riety known as the Monarch, or Milk
weed butterfly. which measures from
three to four inches across the wings
The cause Of this strange invasion is
not known. They disappeared as sud
denly as they had come.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10
OF MONEY
Fbe cozey ven IN WAL street and rs
Eaect ON the AdmiHia-
tratfon.

renrbiean exchange, in dealing
witb future events, says that II ls ~
cnmbent on gold democrats 70 Yote
the republican ticket, SO as 20 maAe
more crushing the defeat o. the cheap
money forces"
The cheap money forces NaLy'
these republican editors seem 70 pe
Tsi15 40 the conditions all round
them They close their eyes to ah
~ reformation contained in their
dai1v market reports. They put their
sngers IN tbeirsears and refuse to lis
ten to facts. Compared with the most
;-mnortant Of the worlds commodities,
money was never cheaper in this eoun-
/ +rv than il is to-day The depreelateo
oreenback dollars would buy IN 1871
more iron thar the gold dollar com-
mands today. THUS, as compared with
1904 we. have a 50-cent dollar with re-
snect to cotton and with respect to cot
Ton nroducts. and a 3O-cent dollar with
respect to iron.
In the face of conditions plain to
all the republican editors go on de-
%nouncing "cheap money in breath
and ~appIauding its results in the next
"Cheap money is a delusion!" they cryr
and then add; "Behold the prosperity
of the country"
Wall street recently took up what has
been called "the CoXey yell" and de-
mandef more money because they
didn't want to see the stock market col
lapse under the influence of low prices
ssThe Coxey yell,'' it seems, is a
horrible, an alarming affair, when
heard in the south and west, or among
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10
a Hardy

The crack chicken story of the ye
comes from the kitchen of the GPld'
Eagle hotel at Reading, Pa Itconlcer
an energetic young rooster that cI tow
and grew fat while carrying ih J
gizzard a stickpin nearly two inches
length, the sharp point Of which h
worked through the muscular seco
stomach of the fowl and protrudet
quarter Of an inch on the outsidek Q
informant says the second coPk
the Golden Eagle was engagad
cleaning a lot of fowls preparat9 Pry
cooking them for the Sunday d pm
While handling q particularly Fl be
young rooster, something prick Ed
hand. He made an investigate n a
found a sharp-pointed instrumen t P
truding through the gizzard. e
open the organ and was surpri FED
find a stickPin therein. The pill p '
mounted with a diamond-shapedH pi
of pearl on which was a gold lett er
The young rooster had probably
served the piece of pearl, and bel ev
it to be an extra fine pebble with Wh
to digest its food had made the m ist
of his life in swallowing it.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A citizen of Coolhaugh, Pa,
tised for a wife recently and CAV.
reason the following: '"There is.
sitting alone these long winter d
rise with the lark and so to bed VI
chickens. Few come in and tall
because they like TO remain il
own home after the work is do
/ don't blame them. It is too
walk to Mount Pocono or Tobyh,
pass away the evening, sol t
what a nice thing it would be to
wife to talk to me and help me
farm"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

eannot close this paper without q
reference to the u1inat laws relating 20.
wives and mothers which disgrace the
statute hooks Of most Of the states. and
which should Sc annulled. writes Mary
a. Evermore % Frank Leslie's Month
-. Only very small proportion of the
states Of fhe American federation allow
the married father and mother to be
equal legal owner and controllers OF
their minor children. Their legal own-
ership resides 10 the father in most
states and the mother who bore them.
and won them at the risk Of her life in
she valley Of death. is denied a share 10
ahem- The laws Of many states not
only give to the father the minor chill
dren but the legal ownership OF the
wife's person and earnings, which prac-
tically reduces her TO slavery. To the
husband is given the right Of choosing
the domieile for the family, regardless
Of the wishes 81 the wife. If the hus-
band dies intestate the law divides his
property among bis heirs, and very
often in such a way as to cause great
hardship 10 bis wife. These unjust
statutes are an inheritau from a long
gone past, and were not formulated by
the legislators of the present. The ma
5ority OF American husbands and ia
thers are better than these laws and
A.-e- $780,. 49, c.su ~
encg Is felt 10 the community, and their
practical results are always disastrous
70 the home and the family, when in
terpreted by men who lack an ideal OF
comprehension OF the worth and glory
OF motherhood and home. The time is
coming when an exalted conception OF
motherhood will prevail, as the most
important aud sacred Of all functions
given TO woman. Enlightened mother
hood will be complemented by enlight-
ened ~fatherhood, and science win come
TO their aid with all it has learned con.
cerning prenatal being. Invention viii
have simplifed household as it has ar
r%ieultural labor, or cooperation will
have extended 10 housekeeping as it ha.
% business. and the home will then be
come a sanctuary for the young child
whose surroundings win be ideal, anc
who can be trained and nodded ariphr
from the cradle, Then viii 1.-THE state
Her Eden come again TO man." Iher
will human f~atherhood and human
motherhood take on something Of til,
2ullness, tenderness and d~ivineuess O
Godhood. And then will the children
born into the home have troopingabou
them such divinities as were never
1hroned on old Olympus.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

The sheriff Of Navajo county, Ariz.,
sent out the following unique invita-
ton; "You are hereby cordially in
yited to attend the hanging Of one
George Smiley. murderer. His soul
win be swung into eternity December
s.. 1909. at two o'clock p. IN. sharp,
Latest improved methods in the art
Of scientific strangulation will be en-
pioyed and everything possible will be
done TO make the surroundings cheer
fnl and the execution a success
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

The last act in the life OF Uncle Henry
Bowen, a venerable citizen Of Hum
phreys county, says a Nashville CTenuJ
exchange, was the %invocation to "For-
give MS our debts as we forgive our debt
ora." and he praeticed what he prayed.
a messenger was dispatched TO SUM
mon all his debtors to the bedside Of the
dying patriot. and they came under the
apprehension of being called on 10 set
tle. but the old man gave each one the
note held against him and thus squared
the account Several thousand dollars
indebtedness was wiped out by his phil
a~nthropy.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

AZ Pratt, Kan. on a recent Sunday
q boy left church during the sermon.
The preacher stopped short and said,
81. sarcastic tone: III anyone eise's
father has bought him q pair Of new
raata. now IS the dme for him e
Snow chem oR
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

The deer bHnting season just closed
resulted ID a total Of il hunters killed
and seven wounded IN Michigan and
che Lake Superior sections Of Wiseon-
sin and Minnesota. Most Of them
were mistaken for deer. Few were
shot though their WI carelessness
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

ian Maclaren," in Ladies' Home
journal, declares that "the diff fculty
Of d~isposing of the old ministet has
been felt so acutely that a distingJ lished
divine of our day-who is nov lead
proposed that a minister who wa past
his prime should be taken out pre-
sumo to some sheltered spot) and shot.
Certainly he expressed the mild OF
some u~ngrateful and miserable & Rgre-
CATION who would be immensel5 are-
iieved to get rid of an old servant n the
quickest and cheapest fashion. Per-
haps, also, it would be the kindest thing
to the minister when he discovers him
self to be an incumbrance on those
whom he loves, and who once loved him,
to give him by SEINE means the co up de
grace, but there are objections d n the
part of an interfering law to this sum
mary method Of disposal, and one must
abandon the idea of an e~ccIesia stical
knacker's yard"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

Farming was the first employment
this globe, and 1t IS still the basis
.of an other occupations. This is a
truth sometimes forgotten BY people
who hnTe risen zanld a
aEeir graDdfathers raised corn and 10,
4aboes. III q remote little southern
settlement a literary" was held not
long ago as a sort Of mental stimulus
To the community. The meeting had
scarcely been called to order when old
Gflas Whitaker obtained the floor and
forthwith began a homely dissertation
on fodder-pulling and cotton-picking
which babe fair to last well into the
next hour. The schoolma'am, who
had a word or two to say herself
about Longfenow and the American
poets, grew FESTIVE. At length she
rose to a point Of order. I'D like i
explained" said she, what corn
raising and fodder-pulling have to d
with a literary meeting" ''Wal,'
said silas, "it's got jest this ter d,
with iii; Eff it warn't fer corn m cot
ton n bacon m greens, there would
MT be a lit'rary mar in the hull couu
try, blame if there would"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

The Kansas courts seem 10 have NO
difficulty il arriving at decisions Is a
certain class Of cases involving what
the lawyers call primary r~espohsihili-
IT," however puzzling the issu may
appear to the ordinary mind Recently
1t was established in CoRey bounty
that when a fair association TUNED a
balloon loose and in coming GoRn the
balloon scared a team of horses mi
ing them TO run away, be nssoiation
was responsible for all damages in
Cured. In the district court OF Labette
county the other day another odd case
came 70 a similar and solomonlike
decision. II appears that an old wom-
an appeared at a Sunday school picnic
with a load of watermelons. Mt hay-
ing a permit to sell from the sunday
school superintendent she was arrest
ed and taken away by a constable.
While she was absent and engaged in
giving bond all of her watermelons
were stolen by the Sunday school schol-
nrs, and for this loss she brog y suit
against the Sunday school, alleging
$4,000 damages. When the case came
on for hearing she was given u alignment
for S56.5O. 1t is presumed that RXecu-
ton will issue against the offiders Of
the school and that in addition TO the
pain Of discovering that Sabbalt tn in
struction has not been sufficient to ed
ucate the watermelon habit out Of thu
boy lambs they must 60 down il theil
pockets and dig up.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10
Hanna says that labor has foumr

Hanna says that labor has found
it advantageous to treat with trusts
and organization" Always the virtue
and holiness of trusts. Always the up
lifting of labor by monopoly and greed.
These are the perennial texts of Hanna.
Does not the money-coddling senator
know that when labor trembles capital
turns pale, fearing a fall-that labor is
the turtle Of Atlas unfolding the world
that labor must be ~contented before
those standing on his back can feel Sc
cure?-N. Y. journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

The humorist's assertion that
whirligGg oT~nahaf price, seems
own revenges. At thebrough'
tional Council of CongregaLd
every speaker exceeded the tim
ted him, thus encroaching upo
privileges of his successor. At
sequent meeting of a State Fed
of Women's Clubs only a single
overstepped the limit of time, {
exception was a man!
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

An Indiana man has sued a prom
inent politician for damages because
he shook the plaintiffs hand so
heartily as to wrench his shoulder,
leaving him a cripple for life Good.
Politicians who insist on w%renching
off a mans arm ought to have their
legs pulled.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

John Quarterdollar and Nancy Mich
Of were married at Providence, r. l.. the
other day. That must make them look
ike 80 cents in a bunch.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A Rockport (Mo.) sc~hool4eacher Of
fered a prize to the pupil who would
come to school with the cleanest face.
The next day he was unable 10 reeog-
nize a single student
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

In Norton county, Kan, there was
a tie between the candidates for regis.
trar of deeds. It was agreed in the
board of county commissioners that q
silver dollar be tossed to settle it, and
the dollar was pitched in the air by
the popullst member. It came down
head and the republican won.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

Canadian authorities put the Klon-
dixie gold product last year at $4,000
600. The boomers and promoters prom
ised g1OO,Oo0OOO.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

There are two hospitals for lepers in
this country, one in New Orleans and
one in san Francisco. Each contains
about IS patients.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

In the mails recently received in
Milwaukee were the ashes of a lady
of that city who died while visiting
Germany and was cremated there.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

Why should the republican party
work against the trusts in congress
when it proposes TO knock the stuf6ng.
put Of them with a platform plank in
i9oO?-St. Louis Republic.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A writer in the Review OF Reviews
gives this advice: IF you have farm
keep it; if not, get one; for the tim,
may come when the population of tbi
country will be largely dlVldfd int
monopolists, dependents and fdrmers
and the farmer will be the most indie
pendent of all men, and will be tn
saving power Of our institutions w
venture to say that 1t VIII not ldepenr
so much upon the farm as uBop III
farmer.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A New York judge has refu sed a di-
vorce to a woman whose applied tion was
based on the fact that her nus band had
failed in business and become poor, ac-
campaigning the refusal with cutting
rebuke. Thus the principle lis legally
established that a woman can hot break
her husband and then shake him be-
cause he is broke.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A party of SO teachers atter ded a
convention at Hot Springs, S. 1 p, and
on returning from an excursio n trip
were saved from a train wreclP by a
~14-year-old boy. 1t seems t nat a
rancher had attempted to cross n rail-
road bridge on horseback, a nd his
horse had fallen through the ties,
While the man was trying to extri-
cate the horse the boy came along.
train was nearly due at tAeA 49,
u,y;a~-1ShFa erse Tor Q DSNus0
OF his coat, fastened 1t on Pc tool
Of a tree and hurried alongt branch
and by waving his improviseS canyon
shouting ~frantically made ag ano
neer stoD Inc train. The boy engi
to take any money as a rewaT refused
services, but when it was ad Tor hi
give him a course of ~educatioI reed tc
state normal school he accept in the
pleasure. u VIII
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

A new American wrinkle is
ture of rice in artificial swan
invention of some northwestern
ers settled in Louisiana. The
a bank around a section of pra J
and pump water into the il
from artesian wells. When
natures the water is let oJ
ground dried off and reapeI
binders secure the harvest at
reduced cost. The land is ca
pared for the next season, al
is no danger from drought.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

An unusual marriage was \
at Perry, Okla. A swollen c.
arated Albert Perry, a cowb
Emma Meyer, about the til
we're to be married. The c.
was with him. The groom p
and swan the creek, but the g
feared to follow. The happy c.
their friends assembled on OF
the stream. and the clergyms
his questions and benediction
other side; and thus they wert
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

tered by the prisoner" said thk clerk
lit seems to be the comminglihg of 8
hiss OF a punctured tire and the wheel,
ing Of an inaator."
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

Claims have been fled up
on account of damages sustg
American citizens through
with Spain, to the amount of.
300, and the president is eXI
submit a recommendation to
in his message looking to the.
of a commission to adjudica
claims and make provision
payment of such as are fou.
legitimate. This action will
under article Z of the treaty
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-02-10

There was a man ch9se1@ NE 9TH
day in New York !sseSs4 erp9g, H
name was j." os ave h
name ID. b