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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27
THANKSGIVING DAY.

It is a beautiful ard onnoblng custom
which the people OF the United States oh.
serve today.
Thanksgiving day was instituted by the
Pilgrims Of New England in 1921 the first
year after their arrival. when Governor
Bradford Of Plymouth appointed a day for
prayer and praise in acknowledgment Of the
first harvest in the now world and OF the
escape from religious persecution. Since
then IL has spread to all the States, and since
1863 it has been National institution by
proclamation of the president
Happily one Of the early aspects OF the
day disappeared long ago. The Puritaus aid
not contend for religious freedom, but for
flo edom to worship God according 20 their
peculiar notions and thoy themselves both
in Now England and in Great Britain be-
came the most tntoerant OF religious zealots.
Lord Baltimore in Maryland first practcod
the poHcy-himeelf an ardent Catholc--of
real religious freedom Independent of gov
ernmental prescriptions and Roger Williams
in Rhode island, bauished from Massachu
setts for his religious opinions, first an
nounced the principle that civil government
shall not concern itself with religious faith
or practice. What to Williams was a mat
ter of conscience and to Baltimore a matter
of policy became in the formation Of the
American republic political principle which
has spread to the leading nations of tho
earth
So we do not celebrate today the Puritan
idea hut the American idea Besides that
we celebrate, as the Plymouth Pilgrims did,
the establishment OF new factor In civil.
2ation and we give thanks for the fayora
which Providence has bestowed.
The day falls after the harvest when the
hu6handman has reckoncd his returns, when
the merchant rs able TO estimate the prohts
of the closing year and when tho country
can cast up the sums of IFS achievements
and blessings
Therefore we celebrate the day as States
as nation and ans individuals and II should
not pass without reflection upon its mani
fold aspects
The nation has enjoyed peace and pros
perity in marked degree and every citizen
of every faith heartily reioices in It's com
forts and in the proud position it occupies
among the powers of the earth-the proud
est from every point Of view in recorded
history God grant that it may never fal
from this high station, never depart from
the wise principles and policies which have
wrought this splendid achievement, and thai
the people may continulngly be inspired hy
the motives OF thrift without greed, fairuos,
between fellow men and fellow nations, anC
sefrespect without self-exaltation.
The State, too, as a whole, is enjoying
gratifying degree Of prosperity. Crops hay,
not been the best, but fortune has favored
Texas in other substantial ways, and b.
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IS cents on $too.' The tar i..,.,
several years by Travis county V tta tsi a, !,
20 cents on $500. ~ thu Nv n
The court also agreed with n. n
appellee was liable for ~, .ns tfiil an,
charged against him in the is d5suss ani "
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THAI story of man shooting at Beaumont
policeman who refused to drink with him is
doubtless true but it's the last thing one would
expect Of a policeman
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27

GouLp's charge against Hawlcy and Hartman
OF an ingenious perversion Of the truth shows
what culture win do A man with an ordinary
bringing up would have called them a pair Of
d. liars"
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GROVER CLEVELAND will speak in Philadelphia
for the benefit Of negro school. Grover ought
to be aware that Boston is the proper place for
that sort of thing.
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appear on an American postage stamp, and she is
expected to become quite stuck up
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27

appear on an American postage stamp, and she is
expected TO become quite stuck up
CANr we help you to a little more OF the dress
ingl
THAT story Of a man shooting at a Beaumont
policeman who refused to drink with him Is
doubtless true but it's the last thing one would
expect Of a policeman.
JUDoE WILSON doesn't want any dope" in his
pipe
GROVER CLEVELAND will speak in Philadelphia
for the benefit Of negro school. Grover ought
to be aware that Boston is the proper place for
that sort of thing.
IrLL be a smart darby that will steal that tur-
key now, won't it,
GERMAN socialists characterize Krupp as rob
Der II will be remembered that Krupp is dead.
Isn't there fable somewhere about live coyote
and dead lion?
CoNGREssmAN HrARsr seems to be real favor
lite with the New York Journal
IT is said that Mrs. Moiineuxs divorce ex-
perses are to be paid by her father-in-law. In
other words he IS willing to pay her to let Ro-
/ land D
Paor. CLARK of the Northwestern university
didn't say it. Perhaps it was Trggs.
You hang a wisbbone DER the door, you Sarah
and you Mary Ann. The FIRST to enter will he
yours most probably your hired man
! By ALL means round up and exhibit the coke
hcnds to the jury in the first case called.
THE presidents message is in the hands of
? he 81 hoe, %
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CAST we help you to little more Of the dress
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27

The Houston Post says Don't be afraid we
have bounced Billy Bunco. Just wait and Sec
Msrid Meas.
Well didn't we show you?
Houston has street Carnival and imagnes IT,
self in the throes Of the ST. Louis Exposition
That town could stick sucker in Us mouth and
imagine itself whale, and feel good over it ali
of the time--Sdn .4Htohio Light
And the real fact OF the matter is that Hous
ton is nearly as far behind ST. Louis as San
Antonio is behind Houston,
What's the matter with our friend Lewis Of
The Postl Too much Carnival 2-Yoakm Times.
Nope just enough.
Houston is in the midst Of a Carnival-Cor-
Siednd Democrat
Rather the Carnival was in the midst Of Hous
ton.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27

JuDor WILSON doesn't want any dope" in his
pipe
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27

Ir'LL be smart darby that will steal that tur-
KEY now won't IL?
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TKE Marihs Washington sarops will re out
this week Masths's is she 6Ess weman's head to
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FOR BUSINESS RFAsONs

y that Mrs Molineux refuses TO state
the grounds on which she will apply for di-
vorce.
Perhaps she is going on the stage and wants
the advertising
New Yorker named Weisburd has purchased
a baby hoy for 5000. BY the time he has done
the nocturnal promenade a few times he will
conclude that he wasn't such a wise bird after
all
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GERMAN socialists characterize Krupp as a rob
Der II will be remembered that Krupp is dead
Isn't there a fable somewhere about live coyote
and dead lion?
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OFFICE OF PUBLICATION,
Nos itoI, 1903, nos, 1907 and 1909 Franklin ave
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-27

Entsysd a. fhe Posiof6es AZ Houston TsrOs. as
Seeor5-CioSs Mail Mattey.
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CoNGRHssMAN HrARsr seems to be real favor
lite with the New York Journal.
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THE HOUSTON DAILY POST.

r P2fftNNissRRoN. Vice President
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Palestine. Texas, yoscsfrsf . Y
Of Captain Ben gard,na nrrlhr !. n
a. 10 o'clock, and laisa ard w 81
the deceased wers rfsp. B. \.
services we're held b. Ns"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-09
sAvAGEs IN SILK HATS
Heiormahon OF the Msn-Eating Car.
fbbeanss
London Mail.

Civilization has killed shs cann,h.,.
dominica To-day there Is but a remn...
OF the race OF Caribs alite: prohahiv 81.
pore than 10 full-bloodea members Cssys
Mr.. Bell, administrator os Dominica inS
consular report just issuea), and these "a
undoubtedly the last Survivors OF ,hAa
race in the West Indies. s1
about l50 years ago they were trea,ed -.
settlers like wild beasts add killed on sfctsy
No efforts were made to take them aii,-e'
because as slaves they we're valueless "a,
hundred years OF peace and protecfion
have completely metamOrhhosed the Cartn
Instead OF a bloodthirstys man-eatinS ssv.
age he is now as law-atlding and mid |.
subject as any the King his.
He no longer paints crimson circles OF
roucon round his eyes ans stripes of hiac~
and white over his body, but on high davs
8nd holidays he wears a sall hat and hIacS
coat Instead OF yelling round sacri
fetal stone the Carib OF td-day goes TO con.
fession TO the parish priest and tells HE
beads with edifying fervof"
In days gone by these Caribs would sud.
denly swoop round a headland In their
crowded canoes and swarm into the harbor
OF peaceful settlement Before the white
men knew what had happened the red
painted savages were in their midst In An
ilstant the town was atslaze and traders
and artisans fell like sheep under the stone
hatchets and tomahawks. Maddened by
rum and gorged with plumber, the savases
would hasten back TO their canoes with
their prisoners and loot.
The prisoners who wer,s not wanted for
immediate consumption were fattened for
their religious festivals. Though Spaniards
Frenchmen, Dutchmen and negroes were
ell ment to Caribbeans, they had their pref
trences. The French they declared TO be
the most delicate and the Spaniards the
hardest of digestion. A communicative bu,
fastidious Carib. who was overtaken by :
traveller while gnawing at the remains OF
ate Arrowaks christians" he said
gave him indigestion"
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Personal and Social Notes.

Miss Cora Rose, of Anderson, is the guest
of Miss Name Biessenherz.
Mrs. John H. Baker has returned from
Goshen and is at the Denison Hotel.
Miss Virginia Keep will return this week
from a two-months trip TO News York.
Mrs. Anna Claypool and Miss Jessie Clip
penger will leave shortly for New York.
Mrs. Granville NJ. Ballard has gone to
Charlottesville for visit of few days.
Mrs. Charles L. Farrell will leave to-day
for st. Louis to visit friends for two
weeks.
Mrs. John Candee Dean has issued invi-
tations for high tea next Thursday aft
ernoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. j. Birmingham have re-
turned from trip to Chicago, Des Moines
and Davenport. Ia.
Mrs. b. b. Cohen has returned from a
visit of several weeks to Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton. o.
Miss Mary Mccormick of Springfield, o.,
is the guest of Miss Katherine Ward, on
North Capitol avenue.
Warren Bigler and wife, of Wabash, will
spend to-day with Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. A.
Ross on Talbot avenue.
Miss Margaret Grove, of Dayton, o., who
has been visiting Mrs. John F. Hennessey,
will return nome tomorrow.
Miss Genevieve Uhl. of Logansport. is the
guest Of Miss Elizabeth Taggart at her
home. No. 1912 Sterling street.
DR.. and Mrs. w. Z. Jeffries will leave to-
day for weeks visit TO their sons at
Huntington. Ind. and Chicago.
Mrs. Anna E. Steele and niece, Miss Ste
venson. OF Minneapolis. are visiting Mr.. and
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the class of January, 1903. A committee
was appointed at the last meeting or the
organization TO about getting pictures
of the class. TO be placed In the hall along
with the organizations of previous years.
An executive committee, made up OF jean
nette Wright, Ella Glass, Maybe Taylor.
Frank Welch and Charles Bragg. was sp-
pointed to make final arrangements for the
coming class party
The chairmen for the various committees
on the kellogg lecture, which is to be
given in Tomiinson Hall on the evening OF
Dec /, have been chosen. and will now
entertainments Frank WEIGH will attend
to the advertising. and James McPheeters
will look after the decoration OF the hall:
Charles Jennings will assume the duties OF
press agent. and have charge of the tickets.
Reserved seats are now on sale at the
Manual Training High School office from
Sis until 3:l5.
In Room G Monday afternoon will occur
and Chemistry Club. This organization
meets every two weeks. Mr.. Abbott,
teacher of chemistry in the school, has
asked permission OF number of manu-
featuring concerns in the city to take the
club for a visit 10 the plants, and this Will
be done in the near future. Last year a
number of profitable trips to the big man
ufacturing plants Of Indianapolis was
the Science Club.
The class Of June, 1903 has chosen the
students who are to be prominent In the
class-day exercises. Lille King will COM
Dillingham; will foretell the future of the
members of the "naughty-three" organiza-
ton. The history of the class will be told
by Harry Carlisle. A committee has been
appointed by the president to select a color
for the class. IT was decided early In the
year to have old gold and violet, but the
difficulty in getting the correct shades or
these caused the organization to settle on
one color.
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NJ. T. H. S. NEWS NOTES.

The third number Of the school organ,
the M L. III. S. Mirror, will appear to-
morrow
The Scotch Lassies met yesterday with
Miss Halle Buchanan at her home, SIG
Elm street.
The class of January, 'O4, has chosen
the following officers: Oscar Conner. poet;
Louis Bohnstadt, prophet, and Elmer
Rashig, historian.
A new set Of officers has been chosen by
January 1903. They are as follows: Ella
Glass; president; Ethel Goode vice presi-
dent; Hattie Stowe, secretary, and Ina
Williams, treasurer.
A girls sorority in Room G has come into
existence, and has the following member
ship: Emma Brandt, Carrie Eberhardt,
Bette Coulsin, Edith Ryan. Florence Hos
brook and Laura Bennington. A name for
this organization has not yet been chosen,
but this matter and set of officers will
be elected soon.
The Manual Training High School Lit
erary and Debating Club will hold it's regu-
lar weekly meeting in Room G tomorrow,
and very interesting programme has
been arranged American writer's of the
present time are being considered by the
club, and the poet Longfellow will be dis
cussed tomorrow.
A weather shelter. in which there is a
hydrometer and other apparatus has been
placed in the north tower of the school
building by the photography department.
or Wnlcn MT. stuart is the teacner. Inc
class will now be able to tell the sort of
weather that is coming 10 indianapolis as
we'll as the local weather bureau.
Room G has opening exercises every
morning from Gas until 10 o'clock. which
are exceedingly pleasant and much en-
joyed by the members of the room. Among
the best on the programme last week was
a recitation by Oscar Common. "Annabel
Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe, followed by an
original parody on the poem by Louis
Bohnstadt
Enjoyable exercises were held in the aud
itorium of the school Friday morning, and
a large number Of visitors were present
who were here attending the Ohio Teach
ers' Association meeting. The selections OF
the Manual Training High School Orches-
ira, which now has thirty pieces. was a
feature Of the programme. The singing OF
THE Star-spangled Banner" by the school
closed the exercises.
The first number of the room paper In
Room was read during opening exercises
Friday morning. The best articles are 70
be republished in the school organ The
staff for the next issue of the paper which
will come out in two weeks. was selected
and Is as follows: Literary editor, Efie
Taylor; scientific, Walter Stewart; poetry
Willard Osler; athletics. Louis Bohnstadt;
personal editor. Lincoln Dickey. and critic
Ethel Stiix.
class party will be given on the even
ing Of Friday. Nov. Is. by the members OF
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REMEDIES FOR SNAKE BITE.
Such as Were Used in Olden Times
New Forest Snake Catcher.
London Lancet.

London Lancet
The subject of snake-bite may occasion
ally engage the individual practitioner in a
moorland countryside, where especially in
the summer and autumn, cases are not un-
known Of infants dying from collapse after
being bitten by vipers. We have recently
used by "Brusher'' Mills, the well-known
New Forest snake catcher, for the bite of
the adder or viper is the fat of the creature
itself melted, bottled and applied, a dorp
at a time, to the wound. The cure he as
serts. is an affair of two minutes. Mills has
of course, had immense experience with
snakes. having, in his day, killed or taken
more than 1900 venomcus and 1900 harm
less specimens. He has, in fact, practically
devastated his own field OF operations
round Lyndhurst. His belief in his remedy
is shared by Wiltshire and Hampshire rus
tics and Is doubtless universal in the coun-
try districts of England
The question is whether this treatment is
merely survival OF the old savage homoe-
opathy which ordains a hair of the dog
that bit you as for the bite or
whether 1t is rude form Of serumtherapy
Vipers are exceedingly quarrelsome from the
moment they break the egg. and unless i'm
mune against venom would long ago have
ceased TO exist as distinct species. Hence
their fat may be a kind of antitoxin. OF
course, all fatty and oily substances are
useful against poisons, which they doubt
less absorb and isolate. The old ashioned
London viper catchers," mentioned by
| white OF Selborne and others always en-
ployed hot olive oil as a cure or treatment
Tor snake bite, and this with ammonia con-
tinues TO be recommended.
We read of the oil cure in works on nat
ural history, but find no mention of the
peasants use of fat How came IL to be used
In the first instance? Probably in accord
ance with the savage theory that fat blood
! sputum and so forth, contain the life prin-
cipie or soul of men and animals and are
therefore, cure for any lesion. Fat was
anciently used 10 brighten away serpents
from gardens and houses The 'suet of deer
strewed up and down where they (adders)
come, will cause them to depart" says
Agrippa of Nettesheim, whose ideas, de-
spite his skepticism. were often those ofthe
tribal medicine man. Bacon fat, mixed
with the brains of a weasel. is recon-
| mended by him to scare away rats and
| mice.
Drugs and charms obtained from snakes
are, of course, very ancient. The witches in
Macbeth make a baieful viper broth, but
the same mixture was also a medicine and
cure for many diseases. The sloughs of
snakes had also singular uses. The six
teenth century Jerome Cardan is quoted in
an old chapeook as saying. IF any do
| sprinkle his head with the powder of
skin that a snake doth cast OF, gotten or
| gathered when the moon Is In the full. BE-
ing also In the f,rst part Of Ariss the Ram.
he shall see terrible and feorful dreams.
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kee Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond left imme-
diately for the South. On their return they
will reside at No As Woodruff Place, where
they will be at home after Dec. 15
XXX
A pretty wedding of the week was that
of Miss Eleanor Minor. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs John W. Minor. and Mr.. George
Winslow Talbot which occurred at the
home of the brides parents on North Cap
itol avenue, Wednesday evening. The rela-
tives and closest friends of the two fam
lilies were hidden to the ceremony, which
was pronounced at 7:30 o'clock. The south
parlor was used as the ceremony room,
and a mass of palms and ferns formed the
background for the wedding group. Miss
Lohmeyer, of Peru, was maid of honor
entering the room after the minister. the
Rev. ]. Cumming Smith. and the bride
groom and his best man. Mr.. John w.
Minor, jr Miss Lohmeyer was gowned in
white crepe de chine. made with a low
corsage and over pink taffeta. The cor
sage was edged with soft shirring of chf-
fon and the sash was of the pink chiffon
She carried pink chrysanthemums. The
little flower girl. Harriet Minor Dithmer,
gowned in a dainty frock of white batiste
and carrying a basket of roses. preceded
the bride and scattered rose petals in her
path. The bride entered the ceremony
room with her father. An orchestra played
the wedding music. rendering the wedding
march from Mendelssohn for the entrance
and "Oh. Thou Sublime. Sweet Evening
STAR while the ceremony was being pro-
nounced. The bride was gowned in a white
crepe de chine made over taffeta- Tho
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EUenfs of the Past
Week ira the City
Personal Menfion@
Personal
Social Calendar for the Week.


Monday
Mrs Charles Liiiy's informal reception
fer Mrs. Morris b. Eddy.
Mrs. j. III. Holiday and Miss Holiday 8
afternoon at home for Mrs Eugen Boross-
Dinner by Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hollweg
and Miss HoIlweg for Mr.. and Mrs. Eugen
Boross.
Tuesday
Mrs Catherine 5. zener's reception fo-
Mrs Clarence Zener.
Informal reception Of Mrs John A. Kurtz
and Miss Kurtz for Mrs. j. r. Cumming
ham. Of Denver.
Mrs W. G. Comly's tea for Mrs. Eugen
Bcross.
Dinner for Mr.. and Mrs. Eugen Boross
given By Mr. and Mrs. ]. II. Holiday.
wednesday,
Annual charity ball of the German Ladies'
Aid Society at the German House
Miss Cleland's company for Miss Rogers,
OF Logansport-
Mrs. May Wright Sewall's dinner for Mr..
and Mrs Eugen Boross.
Thursday
Afternoon reception of Miss Weigand and
Miss Benie Wiegand.
Mrs John c. Deans high tea.
Friday
Mrs W. r. Browns luncheon Tor Mrs.
WOODBURY., OF Minneapolis.
.Minuet Club dance at Brenneke's.
Saturday
Mrs. Browns second luncheon for Mrs.
WOODBURY.