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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
PRETTY THINes To WEAR.
Fresh Fancies for Fail Costumes THAI
Have Been Lately Inn
ported.

Silk and wool mixtures will be IA
vored this fall, and silk will drop into
the background, say Paris authorities,
according to the New York Tribune.
Persian and other oriental embroid-
cry designs are the newest idea in shirt
waist decoration, embroidered bands
being inserted diagonally at the front.
Quite the newest thing is the delicate
lingerie neckwear for the shirt waists
of fine flannel now being shown for
early fall.
With thankfulness it is noted that
the hideous and vulgar green yelling
is rapidly disappearing. Brilliant blue
Of the shade called royal is taking its
place,
The foreign arbiter of fashion indi-
Gates the double breasted, tightly fit
ting wa~istcoat as a coming favorite.
1t will be trimmed literally with hand
some buttons,
Delicate organizes that are crushed.
but not soiled may be- freshened by
sPrinkling with water in which a little
gum arabic has been dissolved and IRON
ing carefully. They will look as well as.
new If properly done.
The Partisan dressmakers are n
deavoring to force the ~directoire coat.
upon the world Of fashion. 1t is cut to
the waistline in front and has short
tails in the back, 1t is tightly fit
ting and closed by large buttons.
A revival Of the old-time position
back is predicted, with vest fronts Of
every description. There will be triple
waisteoat effects, triple jackets, long
stole ends and many other faneiful
ideas for those who wish to adopt them.
Laces are going to be used on every-
thing this fall, from chiffon to fur. Just
now many bargains are to be found, as
the merchants are clearing out stock.
and the designs and quality are fully
equal to those that viii be shown later
at double the price.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10

Cut eight fine, ripe peeled peaches
into %crescents, sprinkle them thickly
with sugar, stick a few blanched
almonds into each slice, and cover them
with the juice of two large, sweet
oranges mixed with two tablespoonfuls
Of water and two drops Of essence Of
almond. Let stand on ice half an hour
before serving. Arrange the crescents
IN the form of a pyramid and garnish
with peach leaves. Another excellent
dressing for peach salad is the follow
ing; Boil together for five minutes a
tumblerfu Of water and two table
spoonfuls Of sugar; then set aside IA
cool When coldAstir in four tables
spoonfuls of cream and the well-beaten.
yo-k OF n egg Pour over the fruit
very gentys-Ladies' World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
THEN HR QUIT D~RIN1Ne.
z Pught He saw Huge spoeaneous
soBsters n Reformed blmis
Wtfe's Trick.

gan who is always pHmising
ms "lIe TO be good was out alain on
9~atuIuay night, says the Wshing-
ton Fost' SAlong toward ii o'dock he
passed q " tell-knoWn down-toIn fish
mo oyster 3%store, and the diephy Of
loosters IN won't of the establishment
caught nus bye. He bought ona that
aDot l~t11pounds. and he picked
y around With him for a few lours
untll ne coul2d find Just the rightIiner
ne "ahleu III take him home. Hgot
nome aIter !Fo o'clock in the morning,
ana ne carr4ed his lobster up tdhis
VIE : ROOM probably with the ida of
aPPeaslng neH righteous wrath With
the present Me turned up the Jas,
ane then clom9Ped over to the footof
her peg anG helS up the lobster.
n oear' salG he, grinning grehs-
ny WASH MARI this FIR t~o-morrowsh
ehe openeo neF eyes and gazed at
WHAT'S h mater with what for
MORT s-to-Qsy''s, rather - din
straight in the EYED
'Thish,'' said he )boldino the brga
lobster still higher and rsgardinp Il.
with pride.
What? Y6TT hands?' s1ro asked.
still looking him steadily in the eye.
''Thish lobshtr-ain't it a babe?" he
asked, switching the weight to the
other hand.
"Oh, a lobster, you say?" said his
wife, complacently, and never taking
her eyes off his face. $50 you fancy
you + showing me a lobster, do your
Do you know what condition such a
hallucination on your part betokens?"
He rested the big lobster on the bed
room mating, scratched his head in
a puzzled kind of way, and looked at
his wife strangely.
Dye mean to shay l haven't got
lobshter here?" he asked her, weakly.
you may have a million. of them
in your mind-I don't doubtthat in the
least-but you are to remember that
1 do not get myself into such a rum
soaked condition that they are visible
to me-" said she, coolly, turning over.
He gazed at her with alarm for a
moment, and then he stumbled into
the bathroom and let the cold water
u on his head. While he was thus
engaged his wife jumped out of bed
and threw the lobster out of the win
dow into the back yard Then she got
into bed again. When he returned to
the room, wiping the water out of his
eyes with a towel, he looked all over
the room for the lobster. Failing to
find it, he bent over his wife, took her
hand, and said;
You're RI. Ish all off. Never gain.
Wen I get sho / shee lobshers isb time
t push out an quit. I quit"
She was up early the next morning
to bury the lobster in the ash barrel,
so that he wouldn't see it from his
window when he got up.
All Of which explains why the man,
who is always promising his wife to be
good, has been taking only seltzer lem
onades and vichy and milks with the
gang on Saturday nights.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
WHY so NAM MEN DROWN.
Heart Failure Is Directly ChargeabIe
with Many OF the Seaside
Fatalities.

A guest at my summer place a few.
miles from Pablo while bathing a
carried out to sea and when almost out
of sight and all hope had fed to our.
surprise we suddenly saw his body i'm
PEELED forcibly toward us. Then we
saw it recede a few feet and thenagain,
as it were, shoot 20 feet toward the
shore. This continued until my son and
myself, at last able to reach him, bore
him insensible to the beach, says a
writer in the Jacksonville (Fla) Me,
tropolis.
After recovery his story was that
after losing all hope, guided by some
mysterious impulse, he had turned upon
his back, when he felt himself carried
rapidly forward. He had then turned
over upon his face to get his bearings.
when he was carried out further from
the land, and on again placing himself
upon his back the surface a
brought him rapidly to the shore, a res.
cued man.
1t is an error that the drowning man
is attacked by cramp except ia very
cold weather. He browns from heart
failure, induced by the violent exertion
and the upward pressure. Of the water
upon the abdomen diminishing tbe
space and impeding the action Of the
heart By turning Y e on the back
his pressure is removed, the back be-
ing almost entirely a strong wan 81
bone and muscle. Also when on the
BACK the entire body is nearer the nj
race and the surface waves tend toward
the shore, the u-ndercurrent out to sea.
even the legs, when upon the back. be
ing less exposed to the current thai
tends toward the sea. BY floating gen
ny upon the back the heart, relieved Of
US pressure, becomes calm and quiet
ana the swimmer can regain lis
strength and float for hours. The bath
er whose heart is weak should az
ways present, when standing erect
right side Of the body to liz waves
aaa thus avoid the s~ullivanHke blows
the incoming waves upon a crippled
leaft In every bathhouse should s.
posted the Injunction; ON case vi
or accident, turn upon tb
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10

There are very few single foods CON
tanning the proper amount of nitrogen
and carbon. 1t is intended that we
shall mix our foods to get a perfect
diet. The whote waeat grain is very
nearly 9 typical food; it may lack a lit
tie fat. MIX and eggs are also nearly
perfect. The pulse or chick peas Of the
east are quite perfect fOod.-Ladies'
Home journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
INDIANS SET TUE LESSON.
North American A%borigtnes nave
shown other Peoples HOW
60 Fight.


Anybody who knows anything at ah
about modern fighting knows that the
North American Indian is the man
who sets the pace, First the Ameri-
can frontiersman studied his ways and
adopted his tactics and the soldiers
took it up, says the Kansas City Jour
nal. Baden-Powell, so the plueky lit
tie South African general eonfesses,
first read about American scouts and
then took lessons from their teachers,
the Indians themselves. But 10Y there
is a slip in the chain, and France is
studying the Indian without going to
the trouble Of first ascertaining what
the best scout in the world, the Amer
lean soldier, thinks about it. France
is trying tine "fexicon march"
Never get the leg straight" are
the French instructions. keep the
back straight, but bent forward Do
not throw the shoulders either back
or up"
That is about the way an Indian
walks, so Capt. Uline, Of the Twen-
tieth infantry, confesses, but, he goes
on, he never heard of the trick being
tried By the military.
81 cannot discuss the merits of the
lexicon" the captain said, "beeause
I am not familiar with it. From the
description it is just about the WY
an Indian walks. His knee is never
locked OF +brust back, so as to have
the leg quite stI&Ebt. The Indian
never uses the heel to the eA5.1sion of
the ball of the foot, but puts the
sole down all at once. Not all Indians
are footmen. 1 could nam half q
dozen tribes which to my personal
knowledge go mounted always and al
most everywhere, V about their
camp.
"The heXicon movement the French
experimentalists are said to be tinker.
ing with and copying from our Indians
is about the movement a soldier gets
when he is fatigued. I am not pre-.
pared to criticise it."
An English army officer, a subaltern
here with the horse buyers, said con
corning the movement:
"The French are the greatest bun.
glers in the world. They get the wild.
est notions-'fads' I ought to call
them-ip their pates. I remember
once they decided to uress every man
in Madagascar in red flannel under.
clothing. Every man in the place got
skin disease. Then they went in for
natural wool and the men got worse
They admitted red irritated the Skin
and then found that natural wool, be.
ing already charged with oil, could
take no more, so was worthless fol-
absorbing p~erspiration. Now they are
iddling with the lexicon movement
evidently trying to step ahead of the
United States in following the Indian,
and overlooking the work the Indian
does when he goes on what we call
his dog trot,' scouting, they proposs
to initiate his walk.
"It is my observation that a soldier
requires this lexicon movement after
he has gone about four miles loaded
down with his equipment. The French
may teach him to always walk tired
to death, but 7 do not think we shall
ever see the British or these Ameri
can soldiers at it.
Coming home to ones self. one
would not like to start to his work in
the morning with the tired-out looH
and movement that he goes home viii
il he has earned his salt. It is a mat,
ter Of pride to pull. ones self together
for the day"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
h Trni1inr skirt.

That women should willingly subject
themselves to the filth, to say nothing
Of the possible dangers, of trailing
skirts has long been a wonder to SEN
sible people who r acquainted with
~bacteriology. For street wear they
certainly cannot be considered in any
sense either clearly or hygienic. How
ever, we cannot expect reform in this
matter unless those who set the fash
ions can be influenced, for women are
bound to be in the fashion regardless
of any ordinary consideration. There
is some encouragement in the fact that
at present bicycle skirts and golf skirts
are in vogue, and we hope they will be-
come still more Observation-Disclosures
Medical Journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
49, ILL., -.

G~orgonzola cheese is Italian, and is
made from goats milk. lit comes from
near Milan and needs to ripen two or
three years There are a few varieties
Of cheese which keep many years. A
Parmesan cheese has been kept $50
years and found to be good when eaten.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10
Peppers Win Rice ana romatoea.

Prepare peppers as for stufing with
rice, but before filing them with this
pour over il a cupful Of good tomato
sauce stir this with the rice until they
are wei blended, fp the peppers with
the mixture, put them in a vegetable
dish and let them staad, covered, in the
oven until they are hot through
Housekeeping.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10

Mix one cupful orange juice with n
cuPtul sugar, three cupfuIs water and
the juice Of one large lemon; add the
thin peel Of one orange. Let stand half
hour, then strain and freeze.-Ledger
Monthly.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-10

- "HIa9e q NoWeNfW.
1here Is at least one good thing about
2oFeFty when kin CONT they don't
stay 50 long -Atehison Globe
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
ONE GOOD POINT
A Direct pecos Valley Extension
Would Make This Much Better
Cattle Market.

~ can say one good thing for the
proposed Pecos Valley extension, :"
said a cattleman and large shipper
this morning, land that is that it is
bound TO make vast difference in the
rates out of Ell Paso to Kansas City and
other markets of the east and middle
west.
"Atpreseut there is Discrimination
against this city, is favor even of so
small place as Deming. While the
rate to Kansas City from here is 60
cents hundred, from Deming it is but
ST. cents, and from Roswell, but thir-
ty-six cents. If the extension we're
put through from Roswell, it would
necessarily mean a reduction Of the
rates here, and this city would attain
something of that prominence 1t de-
ssrves TO attain as a cattle CEN
ter
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
Another Excursion.

A Raymond and Whitcomb excur-
sion. composed Of six coaches, came in
TO FL Psso this afternoon a. one
o'clock, and will go out to California
this evening at seven O'Clock. The
tourists are spending the afternoon in
JuareZ.
The Raymond 81 Whitcomb tourist
excursions which came in over the G..
q. was mo. g. and eighty-seven
easterners were turned loose on Ell
Paso to view the signs. The train
consisted of four Pullmans, one dining
aud one baggage car, end was in
charge of c. w. Smith and Fl. B. Fair
banks.
The train will go out at 1880 tonight
over the Southern Pact 1c and Is
scheduled to stop at Tucson, Arizona,
Riverside, Los Angeles, San Francis
co, San Jose, Salt Lake, Maniton and
Denver, aud arrives in Bos ton Marc b
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
FL pdsO POST Office.

To the HERALD:
The First National bank opened as
usual this morning at ten O'Clock.
| enquired if sthere was bank at
Sabine Pass. They very courteously
informed me that there was not.
From there l went to the postoffice
to enquire for mail, to me very i'm
portsnt. For exactly fifty minutes I
stood in line waiting for the general
delivery window to be opened. Fifty
minutes to some men are very i'm
portant especially If you have to leave
on the Mexican Central az 11:4O. A
gen tleman alongside of me said:
81 must go. 1 have my trunk to
pack. 1t seems foolish that man
can not get bis mail in a city like Ell
Paso any time during legal hours. In
q village, where one train arrives each
day. the postmaster closes, but in city
never in the day time. 1 do not care
for any mail that they are distributing
now;I want my letters that came last
week and I cannot get them. Good
bye"
Yours truly,
JERSEY.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
COMMISSIONS.
Some Hope That the Agreement OF
the Railroads Will 60 To

TIC HdlIi OduS IT'LL w ~
Pieces.
Many complaints are made of viola
ton of the presidents agreement pro
hibitipg commissions on the sale of
tickets. According to appointment
the presidents meet again in New York
on March to inquire int the manner
in which the agreement was being
carried out. II charges made against
a mum Der of the roads can be sub
Stimulated the presidents will have to
adopt stringent measures to keep the
agreement from going to pieces.
Power ful influences are at work to
break it. General passep ger agents of
many roads are said to be secretly
working to bring about this result.
With checks in payment for January
ticket sales ticket agents, it is claimed,
have received blank vouchers to be
filed out with February sales. This is
taken as an Indication that ticket
agents will continue to be paid COM
missions. Il is not probable, however,
that the presidents will admit that
they are not strong enough to enforce
their compact. The imp essiou ia
that their action was simply prelimi-
nary to the proposed formation of
gigantic passenger pool. By this
means each road would be allotted q
percenta2e of the earnings, thus re-
moving all incentive to cut rates or
pay commissions.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
A CAR OF DRESSED BEEF
Shipped From Fl pdso-May Be
the Beginning OF Big Indus


the Beginning OF Big Indus
try.
The first full car of fresh beef chip
ped from Ell Paso since the Ell Paso
Ice and Refrigerator company quit
shipping in 1888, left Ell Paso yester-
day. 1t was shipped by J. b. Nations
Meat and Supply company to VIM
Farr, Albuquerque. N. NJ, and is the
beginning of " hat might prove regu-
lar business in this line.
The local butchers have tried for
year or more to establish quarantine
slaughter house and pens here so as to
be able to furnish Ell Paso and
surrounding country with meat and
fresh beef during the first six months
of each year when it ls impossible TO
get fat beef off grass.
They first tried to get the @. II u
S. A. people to put in a side track on
their main lire east of the city and
offered to psy the expense but could
accomplish nothing there.
But when it was taken up with
Supt. Greig of the E. 2. 81 N. f.. and
properly laid before him he at once
said:
I'VE will put in siding for you
where you want it.
Consequently, owing tn the fact that
the White Oaks people are always
ready TO help improve the conditions
of Ell Paso and Der people, Nations can
now supply the demand for cotton seed
fed beef, sand the manager Gays that
he will be able to supply the butchers
of Albuquerque with dressed beef In
car load lots cheaper than they can
busy 1t elsewhere.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
Auditors Here.

Travelling auditors for the four roads
interested in the joint freight Office are
in Ell Paso today going over the c.
counts at the warehouse. J. H. Bond,
of Dallas, for the Texas & Pacific; Mr..
Beagle and w. 81. Walsup, of Los
Angeles, for the Southern Pacific:
Carrier and Sayers, of Houston, for the
G., Fl. g. 8. A, and L. B. Jones, of
Trinidad, for the Santa Fe, have bad a
busy day with the joint agent and his
nlarka
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
A FALL OF TWENTY DEGREES
To Be Expected Within the Next
ThirtV-Six Hours

Ell Paso is threatened with q change
from the warm midsummer she lis en-
joying today. A dispatch WAS received
by Weather Observer Lane from Chief
Moore of the weather bureau, contain
ing the warning that the temperature
in northern Texas and northern New
Mexico would fall twenty degrees with
in the next thirty-six hours.
However, it is believed that the
backbone of the winter, which hasn't
been very much of winter after all,
is broken
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
Advertising Pays

"The herald is a wonder as an ad
vertising medium" said j. A. Eddy
this morning. I'VE have already sold
a big proportion of the scre tracts re-
Gently put on sale at AlamogordO, and
i can attribute it to nothing else than
the HERALD telling SO many people of
the chance Those tracts will be fine
thing for the town and will have the
effect when planted in fruit, of vast
Darkn
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
TOO Much Money" Tonight.

Local playgoers will be made &C
quainted tonight with that merry
me- ange of wit and fun, the new and
enormously successful comedy ''Doo
Much Money" q we'll conceived story
series of funny situations. which
seem to strike the public fancy square,
lvtn the center. 1t is the attraction
at the Myar opera house tonight.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
THROUGH To Galveston.

The Southern Pacific now announces
that it runs its through sleepers from
Ell Peso into Galveston over it's own
track on the Bay Shore or G., II. &c 81.
r. r. This entry into Galve-ton is
something Uncle Coils has been striv-
ing for for years, aud now that he has
1t at last Galveston papers are CONF
mentipg on the matt r 1T length.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14

Shady Grove Butter is the best. Two
pounds for IS cents. We also sell three
dozen eggs for so cents. Ell Paso Gro
Gerry.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
LINK AND PIN.

read will soon take the 17-lnch pas
senger engines of the Rio Grande
division and replace them with Is
inch engines. Engineers on the road
have had no official notice of the pro-
posed change as yet.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
Ebony.

Ebony was esteemed as an article Of
luxury by the ancients. In India it was
employed by kings for scepters and ina
ages and, as it was supposed to annu
the power Of poisons, was often made
into drinking cups.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14

The public Knows Shady Grove But
ter is the purest and upquestiOnably
the best On the market. We are cell
Grocery company.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
Marriage License.

Lewis Myron Vlect obtained q
license yesterday to wed Miss Marga-
rita Ramsey.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
Energy q Factor.

ALI things come to him who waits, but
the fellow who hustles does not have to
wait so long.-St. Louis Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
DR.. Otto Won Muller,

) DR.. Otto Won Muller,
& The Only Russian Specialist
Z in the United States-Former
; Professor of the Russian
= Medical College and now re-
tired Surgeon of the Russian
I Army.
4 The doctor b as enjoyed wonder
q full success during his travels
throughout European cities,
4 Asia, Australia and Africa, is
Z now permanently located in Ell
Paso.
4 His long practice in tt e largest
hospitals of the world enables
him to successfully treat all
chronic diseases, such as bron-
: chitis, asthma and consumption,
rheumatism, eleeplessEess, brain
and nervous exhaustion, paraly-
sis, neuralgia, headaches, fits, St.
Vitas dance, cancers, tumors,
I skin diseases, including freckles.
4 pimples, ulcers, salt rheum. etc.:
) also heart, liver, stomach and
I kidney diseases; nervous debility,
confusion Of ideas, aversion of
society, loss of memory and ener-
gy, etc. Diseases OF the eye and
ear quickly and permanently
cured by an original and never
falling treatment. Cures guar
anteed where others have failed,
but he will not accept incurable
cases. He will examine you
thoroughly, and if durable he
will frankly tell you so.
Young men who become VIC
Tins of solitary vice, that dread
ed. habit that sweeps annually to
an untimely grave thousands of
young men of exalted talent and
, brilliant intellect, may call with !
confidence.
Rsmem Der it costs you nothing !
to consult this eminent specialist, I
and therefore the most humble
In circumstances can avail them
selves of his vast experience. Z
Catsrrh and Catarrhal Deaf
ness is positively and permanent
ly cured.
DIR. Otto Won Muller gives }
special attention to the diseases
of ladies. He will positively Z
cure all female diseases. Ladies
will be received on Thursdays
only. Z
Office Hours to II, 2 to 4. I TO 5 Z
The doctor can be consulted at :
PIP ST. Louis street. Plaza
Rooms, Room No. 1 up stairs.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
To Change Engines

A statement is out that the SAINT, Fe