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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-01
LOWER AT LIVERPOOL.
Cotton Values Dropped and New Or
leans Followed.
INJURY REPORTED NEAR AUSTIN
Short Session and New York's Close Re-
stroted ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
Domestic Outlook for the Goods.

The cotton market yesterday suffered
from lack Of support from Liverpool, and
added to holiday apathy. caused the values
TO drop there al New orleans. It was
rather an of day In the markets, the SEES
sion ending at II o'clock at New Orleans
and none occurring at New York.
There was an absence Of signs OF trade
revival and some rainfall was reported In
Texas Under these surroundings gen.
cral decline took place In both futures and
spots.
Liverpool was particularly discourasiug
Sales on the spot amounted to 1000 bales
ut quotations, 3.32d lower. The deliveries
went from J-G4d to G-G4d off on all the
positions New orleans opened II to u
points behind the preceding close and i'm
mcdiateiy took a better turn gaining l.
points In the first two hours, when the best
was reached Aftcrward the scale was
continuously dropping, which lnsted until
the close. In the net result September
was II points lower, November ana De.
cembcr lost points while the other
months declined S points. Sales on the
American side amounted TO 1425 bales and
spots decreased 1.l6c at New Orleans safe
at Houston and Mc at Galveston.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
The YAKIMA HERALD.
THURSDAY. MARCH IS. 1901.
LOCAL SIOR|ET1ES.
Didn't want a Cannon BAH.

A local enthusiast Of gun and range
stepped into a hardware store on the
avenue the other day and inquired OF the
clerk if they kept ammunition for the
Savage rifle.
Eyes, sir, we do" answered the clerk
with confidence in his ability to under
stand the technicalities of firearms.
"I'll take box of 303 cartridges, y
said the customer
"Gee whiz'' replied the astonished
clerk. "Three hundred and three. We
haven't anything as big rs that; As cali
bre is the largest we have any call for. :"
"Do you think want cannon ball?"
returned the enthusiast with smile as
he proceeded to explain matters.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
Men Are Foolish. Too.

Love is not alone confined to the let
tiers of literary people, as one would
suppose from reading Love Letters of
Literary Men and Women recently
published; but in the byways and on
the highways OF the everyday life OF
those who make up the mass of the I'M
known it floats and scars with all the
beauty OF music twanged from the
.Eolian harp at the hands OF Venus. In
attest OF this the following letter, picked
up from the street, is submitted:
DEAREST BELOVED: Yesterday on the
train asked the porter for some paper.
| started to write letter to your sister,
when ! discovered that some one else
had commenced letter on the same
sheet. Dear, Darling, Sweetest Jean
nette," it began. l Immediately fell
into reverie, shut my eyes and tried to
picture in my mind what kind OF girl
Jeanette was and what she looked like.
| concluded she must be fair.haired,
dreamy-eyed, peachblow girl, daintily
gowned and supple limbed, young ga
zelle with blushing cheeks and rosebud
lips pouting temptingly. | made up
in my fancy such lovely picture of this
Jeanette that fell to loving her N.Y.
self and wanted to make an armful of
her-circle her celestial waist and press
her throbbing bosom to my breast.
| found myself growing jealous of the
smitten youth who had presumed to
think OF penning a letter to this sweet
nymph, and wanted to get his throat in
my grip and shut off his wind till his
eyes stuck out. Then along came the
negro porter and asked
"Scuse me, boss, but did you done see
letter | was writin' to nah guhl?"
Alas. for my idol-my fair-haired
beauty that | had in my minds eye
fashioned to fit the title Of "dear, darling,
sweetest Jeanette Thus are the illu.
sions oil youth dispelled All me-
| L went to see
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
Shooting Smallpox.

The other day two strangers were on
Second street swapping stories, and in
cldentally entered into a swap of Win
chester rifle. In examining the death
dealing weapon one of the men acct
dentally caused its discharge, which
raised commotion quite uncommon to
the neighborhood. Some women near
by became undulv excited over the incl
dent, and their first impulse was to run
for an officer. Not seeing the city mar
shall near, one Of them ran out side
street and hailed him as he CHANGED
along a parallel thoroughfare.
"Hey. Hey. Mr.. Marshall" shouted
the woman in strident tones. .Come
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
Yakima Fruit In the Orient.

There is a demand in the orient fol-
Washington fruit, and this year there
will be quite large business done be.
tween China, Japan, Russia and this
state in this class of shipments. Last
year for the first time, it is said, oriental
orders in any amount were received here
for apples. The shipments were in the
main to China from the Yakima coun-
try. The very choicest Of the fruit was
taken to fill the orders, and advices from
the consignees are to the effect that
they arrived in splendid shape and
were readily disposed of.-Tacoma Led
ger.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
She Knew the Disease.

Mr.. Snoogles, well-known Second
street merchant, who is sometimes
troubled with an irritating rash, re-
turned home the other day with a
"breaking OUT over his face that in
these days when everybody is afraid OF
the dread disease might easily have been
mistaken for smallpox symptoms. He
told his wife he was not feeling well,
and lay down on Il couch in the front
room to get relief. Shortly woman
picture agent was admitted to the room
and proceeded to entertain the wife with
a long story of the superiority of her
wares over others. When she was about
half way through her speech-making
she happened to glance at the couch and
the husband lying there with flushed
and splotched face. Stopping suddenly
she inquired:
SIS he sick?"
Eyes, but not dangerous, replied the
wife.
ooh, | know what's the matter :"
cried the picture agent, making dash
for the door.
"Well, but
"Oh, | know what it is
sit is"
81 know what it is-you needn't tell
mel" and she hurried away without
even looking back, while patient and
wife nearly exploded with laughter
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
Representative Rich Is peevish.

Hon. Nelson Rich returned from the
legislature last Saturday. In CONVEX
sation with the Record editor Mr.. Rich
expressed surprise that the people Of
North Yakima should accuse him Of try.
ing to defeat the state fair appropriation,
when it was by his earnest solicitation
that the appropriation was made. But
instead they give the credit to one who
surely knows, if he knows anything,
that he had no infuance in the matter
whatever.-Prosser Record.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

Vermont up to Boston. While Twas de-
batting the matter got telegram from
the department Che pulled it out and
showeditto Capt (Sicarl) that said For
Boston in your orders read Brooklyn
so I came down to New York ycster-
day. I'd never been in brooklyn. so !
asked man how to get the Brooklyn
navy yard, and he said I'd better take
a ferry, SO took ferry. and when ]
got of asked a man how to get to the
Brooklyn navy yard, and he said:
Take ferry asked him what that
place was, and he said: Staten Island
So l took a ferry, and when it stopped il
was in place man said was Communi
paw. asked him how to get to the
Brooklyn navy yard. and he said: Take
ferry thought it wasn't good
place for me to be around loose in at
night, so I got hotel and went to bed.
and this morning l hired a boy for so
cents to pilot me to the Brooklyn navy
yard; and, by the way, captain. have
you got that sum in your clothes?"
And they say Horse" Tyler got off,
N. Y. Sun.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
fortune and founding a fortune.

fortune and founding fortune. Few
men chance upon fortunes. The fort
unes we know about are not found but
founded on a certain substantial basis.
The nature of that basis of fortune is
we'll set forth in the advice given by
successful merchant to a young man
who asked, ~What 10 the first requisite
to making a fortunef" 1.-THE first re-
quisite to making a fortune" said the
rich man, lis health" wThe idea that
fortunes are made suggests toll and in
dustry and skill. Nothing can be made
without these. But weak man cannot
toll, and industry is incompatible with
ill-health. If. you want to be strong
remember that all physical strength
comes from food and that the amount of
strength extracted from food depends
upon the ability of the stomach to d.
gest food and assimilate its nutrition.
The man who takes care Of his digestion
is. in general, taking care of every other
organ Of his body"
SUCCESS AND THE STOMACH.
The merchant who gave the above
opinion may not have been much of
physician but he was good deal Of
philosopher. He had seen men with
SUCCESS dliIlOSt Wttuiu Tue kTdSp, DIeak
down because of rstomach trouble"
He had theorized the saying that the
vweakest must go to the wall into the
saying that cthe man with the weakest
stomach must 60 to the WALL" because
no man is stronger than his stomach
The man who will learn this lesson of
success has taken a great stride to his
goal. Health is the first prerequisite of
success and health in general means
sound stomach and good digestion.
I.ool, at the logic Of the matter Food
is mans life, his strength. Physical
life is sustained by food. But the fact
that thing can be eaten doesn't make
it food. Many physician practising in
the tenements Of city says of failing
men or women. rWhat they need is
nony1shing food" Shipwrecked men
eat scraps Of leather, the bark of trees,
anything to satisfy hunger. But this is
not food in any true sense because it
contains no nutrition. All food must
be considered in relation to its nutritive
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
TOOK THEIR ADVICE.
Lieut.. Tyler Took . Ferry, But 1t Diu
Not Take HIN to Capt. Sicard.

WV AsAO AAA ~ OoWNs 0hCoE0s
When Rear Admiral Sicard, who
took command Of the North Atlantic
squadron the other day, was captain
he was stationed for q time ON the old
receiving ship Vermont in the Brooklyn
navy yard. To him Lieut.. Hanson r.
Tyler, now retired, was ordered to re-
port for duty on the Vermont.
Tyler was big, round. good-natured
Vermonter, with a long. nasal. down
east drawl, and all the navy had nick
named him HORSE" 1t happened this
time that "Horse" reported four days
late, and Capt. Sicard was annoyed
The captain was not n martinez, but he
was believer in strict discipline and in
the fullest performance of duty. When
he was in command of a vessel it was al
ways shipshape. When he was in COM
mand Of navy yard things moved off
as it was intended they should move
So. when Tyler came aboard the Yer
mont Capt. Sicard was displeased be-
cause of his hardness.
Good morning, Capt. Sicard."
drawled Tyler. 81 am ordered to the
Vermont, and / am here to report t
you for duty"
Good morning. Mr.. Tyler" an
swered Capt. Sicard. "Will you have
the goodness to explain why you are
four days late?"
Certainly. captain" said Tyler. with
just the suspicion of a grin and an extra
attenuation in his drawl. You see. my
orders we're to report aboard the Yer
mont at Boston. l went to Boston and
found that the Vermont was ut Brook
lyn. didn't know whether to bring
Boston down to the Vermont or the
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
The Finest Service to the East and South

The o. X. 4 N. Co., in connection
with the Oregon Short Line and Union
Pacific, offers the finest service and
fastest time to Salt Lake, Denver, Kan
sas City. Omaha, st. Paul, St. Louis,
Chicago, and all points east. Three
trains daily from Portland, with choice
of many different routes. Palace and
tourist sleepers, library, dining and
chair cars OH all trains.
Write A. l.. Craig, general passenger
agent, o. Il. x \. Co., Portland, Ore,
for particulars.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

Oxferd university has published an
incomplete list of 237 Oxford men
who have gone to the war.
The Yale faculty and corporation
are considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
opening bank for the use of college
students
OF the 401 women students in the
University OF Paris some are repre-
scented in all the courses except the
ology.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
Finding a Fortune and
Founding a Fortune.
A TRAMP'S LUCK AND AN EN-.
ERGETIC MANS PURPOSE.

It is perhaps true as told that tramp,
searching garbage barrel for scraps Of
refuse food, found a fortune in good
United States currency. Such thing
may happen.
But the workman who gives up
steady occupation however unremuner-
alive to hunt garbage barrels for fort
une will surely degenerate to tramp.
There is a difference between finding a
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

value. When the stomach and the al.
lied organs of digestion and nutrition
are diseased the nutrition contained in
food is imperfectly extracted and the
body fails of nutrition adequate to its
needs. The shipwrecked sailor living
upon scraps in which there is no nutri-
ton u on q level with the man who eats
abundant nutritious food but whose
stomach with its allied organs is dis
eased and therefore fails to extract from
the food eaten the nutrition which is
the body's need.
SOUND STOMACH. SOUND MAN.
That is almost an axiom. The man
with q sound stomach and good diRes-
ton will in ordinary be a sound man,
because the nutriment of food is the life
and strength of heart, lungs, liver, kid.
neys and every organ of the body.
The first need Of weak man is to
look after his stomach and his digestion.
There is the common seat of physical
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

around the corner quick! There is a
man around there shooting at the small
poxv'
When the marshal took the victims
before the police justice he sug-
gested that the health officer ought to
spray for accidental discharge of fire.
arms -
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

You advised me to try the Golden Med
ical Discovery so began the use of it
and after taking four bottles felt SO
we'll that went to work, but soon got
worse, so again began the use of it and
used it about eight weeks longer, when /
was permanently cured. I took in all
twelve bottles of the Discovery and
some of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets in
connection with the Discovery"
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry cures diseases Of the stomach and
other organs Of digestion and nutrition.
It cures through the stomach diseases
which seem remote from that organ but
which have their origin in disease of the
stomach and its allied organs.
There is no alcohol in vColden Med
ical Discovery" and it is entirely free
from opium, cocaine and other narcotics.
Persons suffering from disease in
chronic form are invited to consult Dr.
Pierce by letter, free. All letters held
as strictly private and sacredly conf
dental. Address DR.. X. Y. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
There Is no similar offer cf free con-
sultation by letter or free medical adj
vice which has behind it an institution
such as the lnvalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
There is no similar offer of free medical
advice which has behind it a physician
Of DR.. Pierce's skill and success. In
little more than thirty years DIR. Pierce,
as chief consulting physician to the
Iuvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
assisted by his staff of nearly score OF
physicians, has treated and cured huh
dreds of thousands Of men and women.
IS YOUR LIFE WORTH 81 CENTS.
1t may often happen that the issue of
life or death depends upon knowing
what to do and how to do it in crisis.
DR.. Dierce Common Sense Medical
Adviser is full. of helpful information
which may at any time mean the saving
of life. This great work containing
1908 large pages is sent free OIL receipt
of stamps to pay expense Of mailing
ONLY. Send 81 one-cent stamps for the
cloth-bound volume or only 81 stamps
for the book in paper-covers Address
DIR. r. V. Pierce. Buffalo. n. Y.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
DR.. FoRp.s pY spEpTIcIp

expells the noxious germs of dyspepsia
from the system, absolutely cures the
disease and causes the stomach to fur
nish healthy blood for tissue and nerve
building. DIR. FORD'S DYSPEPTI-
eide thus differs from other remedies.
North Yakima Drug Store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
Got His Hair Rack.

Frederick Manuel, Maryland block,
Butte, Montana, bought bottle of New
BROS Herpicide, April 6, '99, and began
to use it for entire badness. In 20 days,
he says, he had hair all over his head,
and on July =, he writes, and to-day my
hair is as thick and luxurant as any one
could wish. Newbro's Herpicide works
on an old principal and with new dis
covery-distroy the cause and you re-
move the effect. Herpicide destroys the
germ that causes dandruff, falling hair,
and finally badness, SO that with the
cause gone, the effect cannot remain.
Stops falling hair at once and starts the
new growth in week. 9-12
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

The average pay OF school janitors in
Greater New York is about one third
more than the average pay of women
teachers. The probable explanation is
that the ianitors vote.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

The appropriation bill signed by the
governor carries with it $4,000 for the
state fair which will be held here this
summer
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

EOLey'S Honey and Tar
heals lungs and Stops the cough.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28

weakness. How weak men
have been made strong /;
strong Of heart, liver, lungs,
kidneys, and other organs
by being made strong OF
stomach and strong Of di.
gestion has been told thou.
sands of times by those
who have used DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
III write to tell you OF
the great benefit 1 have re-
ceived from the use of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" writes Mr.. G. B.
Bird, of Burnside, Putnam
Co., w. Va. rIt cured me
Of a very bad case of indi-
gestion associated with tor
pid liver. Before I began
the use Of Golden Medical
Discovery I had no appe-
tite; could not sleep nor
work but very little. The
little that I ate did not
agree with me, bowels con-
stipated, and life was a
misery to me. I wrote to
DR.. Pierce giving the symp-
toms. and asked for advice
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
YAKIMA COLLECTION AGENCY
Collections and Commercial

49,. Law
Claims collected, secured or renewed. col
lector continually on the road Office over
Fist National Bank. North Yakima
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-03-28
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.

Shop and office on Chestnut Street. between
First and Second Streets.
The Portland daily press., 1901-02-16

Carlyle was constant and heavy
smoker. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy once
suggested TO him that one who suffer
ed so much from sleeplessness and in-
digestion ought not TO smoke so con
stantly. Carlyle replied that he had
once given up smoking for an entire
year at the instance of doctor, who
assured him that his only ailment was
too much tobacco. At the end OF the
year he was walking one evening in
the country, so weak that he was hard
ly able to crawl from tree to tree, when
he suddenly determined that, whatever
was amiss with him. that fellow at
least did not understand It," and he
returned to tobacco and smoked after.
ward without let or hindrance.
In his latter days he used clay pipe
made In Dublin and known as the RE
peal" He was unable TO renew the
supply. and Sir Charles Duffy assured
him that these pipes were strictly re-
served for true believers in Irish ma.
tionality and promised him a supply il
he qualified In the ordinary manner.
Carlyle never qualified.-London Chron-
icle
The Portland daily press., 1901-02-16

you are about to leave, I trust that
Suddenly realizing that this was not
at all the letter he had intended to
write, he tore it up and began another.
'My Dear Miss Ripley
The boy entered with a telegram, and
when he went out he left the door
slightly ajar. Through the crack Per-
rim had a half view of the wreath OF
brown braids. an olive, oval cheek and
pair of graceful shoulders bent over
typewriter. Day after day for two
years he had seen that picture, and 1t
had become one Of the familiar things
Of his life. How bare that corner
would look with her not therel He
could not imagine another woman In
that corner. If II were not too late, he
might speak to her and try to get her
into another mind about going. But
of course IL was too late. He resumed:
MY Dear Miss RiplSy-Your reslgna-
tion comes rather unexpectedly, and as
l shall be taken up with outside mat
ters for the next two weeks it would
oblige me IL you would remain with
us until the 18th of March instead OF
the 1st. May | further request that
The Portland daily press., 1901-02-16

surgeons through. Perrin turned
away. sickeucd, from the spectacle. al
most colliding with Miss Ripley, who,
white and horrifed. was struggling to-
ward the wreck. He caught her by the
arm.
Come away: don't look: it's too
terriblei' he exclaimed.
She wheeled toward him with wild
eyes and perfectly pallld face. and in
another breath he found himself fight
ing his way to the street with an un-
conscious woman in his arms.
The snow, falling on her face, quick
ly revived her
You shouldn't have gone in there"
he began.
'T thought--I thought-that you
she gasped and then broke into hys-
terical sobbing.
Perrin's brain whirled. but II seemed
to him that It never acted with such
phenomenal rapidity before. He shout
ed to a passing cab and helped her in,
calling out an entirely impromptu ad-
dress, one that had the merit Of being
at least five miles away.
The conversation inside the cab
might have sounded incoherent and
disjointed TO a listener, IL there had
been one. 1t was the first time they
had spoken to each other without hos
tillty, and there was a great deal of
time to be made up. At last Perrin
said: Good God, what fool | ami
Why, Emily, I've been nearly daft all
day over your going, and didn't know
what was the matter with me-"
IL couldn't bear TO stay any longer"
she answered, with a gush Of tears.
"Did you hear Barker ask why didn't
send you valentine2 l almost told
him that l had sent you the one you
wanted me to-"
"A valentinel Indeed, you owe me
one. And you're going to give 1t to me,