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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-03

an THROWN down his deh he resorts ter
little underhandod meannesses.
We got an initiation TO so up ter Fort
Worth as tn guest Of the Fort Worth
brewery and incidentally ter help dedicate
the new slaughter hOuaei but we cant so
Just because when we went to get the loan
OF Verb Sappg mothcriulaw''s goin' away
gown Il was nowhcre ter he toupd some
miscreant lineaniu verb havln sWIped an
hid IT, an in the Hight OF recen. ana re-
note events OF this nature II dn't 20 hard
for rs ter guess. who's been ap 10 all the
dsylln,ent around the Eye office dprin' our
frequent absences; and we think we know
Who poured the sheiiac into our subscrip-
ton jug time we went 10 Galveston anl
was the cause Of our jaws being 80 tight
shut that we had ter gum our grub over tn
ton OF our false teeth Instead oil chewin' st
with EN-. All Of these nngun' little things
II they haven't been forgotten have been
overlooked for we believe In tn power OF
moral guaslon and booze. Verb takes our
booze aud smokes ana chaws our terbaccef,
but II don't seem ter have no more effect
on him than the water cure would Eaye on
local optioneri we think that IL was Verb
switched the bottles on us that night we
drlnked the AQUA FORTS and burnt holes
through everything We spit on and whlia
we don't make no pretensions ter helm
the original carly worm we're a.coin' 20
exercise that worms God given preroga.
tive an turn on him some day when he
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We regret the necessity OF dweiiin' on
these personal "reminiscences as we do but
We recognize the fact that along with their
liquor advertisements the Thousands Of
readers OF the Eye want some eleyatin and
upiftin' literature. and since Verb sapp
went and GOT mad and discontinued his
Tonglefoot Tales just because we let him
get crowded out one week by brewry ad,
we are just naturally compelled TO do this
sort OF thing; II don't seem 10 cut much
ice with Verb that he drinked half the
booze that the ad brung us, and we don't
thing we are mlsiudgin' Verb when we say
that he'd a been mad n he'd a drinked
all Of lt; we know we would.
The trouble with Verb seems to be that
he was just watching for somethin TO get
mad about and he'd got mad II he hadn't
found rs matter With Verb IS he's Jealous
of us and his motherfnlaw, and we think
he's foolish; Of course they haint no prece-
dent 10 guide rs In such case, but we
don't believe no man can live happy with
his motherinlaw, but II he wants to chance
It why don't ne go ahead an marry the
woman We don't stand 10 lose any booze
by II. But no. he won't marry her. and
mes mad az her hankerin for US aud in
stead OF com!n' right out into the open
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clever cnes was kept a profound secret.
That IL was one Of the CleVercst hOaNcs
ever perpetratcd was proven by the number
OF scupt0rS, arcnaeologlsIs, antiqnarinus,
clergEneu end others ur the learned pro
fesslous who were taken In by thc ny
ure and gave more or less profound ex-
plantations o. ts origin.
Mr.. Sela Is an elderly man VINO has
made his reputation over the world as .
sculptor of considerable mstit. u said he
simply undertook the work in q profes
sionsl way, having been employed by At
Mr. Taylor, wac was, ~ t9at tine, 1865,
a sort of silent partuer with B3rnum.
Yes, il wos i who carved tue Cardiff
giant said Mr.. Sala, and Mr.. Taylor
paid me the handsome sum Of $4,000 for
ahe work; subsequently he ofJen gave
me $500 when eyer his receipts were ex-
G ptiorally good. / carved tar giant In a
barn near quincy, III. The. slab Of gypsum
was obtaii Cd 10 the vicinity. OF Course,
i had Lcthlng 20 do vita The 81 tue aft r
il left Quincy. but ! know tAat from there
Il was 81 pIed TO Ch,eaeo. then BY water
TO Budaia. nj Gnsly b. canal Boat aud
team TO CSrd.A y y. wherc It was bur H.
TIE nature 81 tie pack Sc was, II course,
kept s.cret.
a number OF the Popular Science Monthly
published IN 1878 bears OUT Nh saias state
nent in some details, but mentions .dr
Edward sale. a German, as one OF the
sculptoIs and the other a Mr.. Markham,
an American. Mr.. Sala claims that the
Sale referred TO can be no other than MIN
self and the use OF the name Is mistake
on the part Of the writer
BEFORE the burial Of the giant In the old
we'll at Cardln the figure Was subjected 10
long ana careful rubbing with sand and
water. which produced the water worn ap'
pearanee so often cited as iaeontroyertole
evidence OF extreme antiquity. me pores
- the sktu we're carefully initiated by pick
inc the entire surface with leaden nam
msrs faced with needles, giving the peculiar
goose flesh" which puzzled 80 many: As
there sill renlined an appearance 81 fresh
ness .he figure was given sulphuric acid
hath 10 give II the desired appearance OF
age. -. so,,,a ,,,.,i,...,or
well dlegers, the arch engineer OF the hoax
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least expects 1t and land him swat that'il

least expects II and land him swat that'l
knock all tn taste out Of his mouth.
They Amt no necessity OF our botherin'
with the nasty old proposition OF all. II It
want that we want ter be considered per
fectly square we'd just drop a hint 10 his
motherinInw and she'd cnase him und.r
the house and keep him there until the
snow files or she'd run him inter the cnne
brakes and keep him there an outcast and
pariah from the land OF his adoption. We
don't deny that we're feeiin' somewhat sore
over the swipin' OF the gcin away gown
because It's her own undeyiatin' custom 10
accept ev'ry invitation that any brewery
sees ct TO extend and we was gay with an-
ticpa tons Of the time we was goin' ter
have at Fort Worth; and we expected 10
laugh ourself wrong side out watchin
Northern butcher tryin' TO git slab Of
bacon on of Texas razorback. hence our
disappointment Is something great. but e
Is sweet TO be able to feel that We have t'ie
sympathy OF our thousands ~ readers ana
Vox populisi N this the hour Of ouf great
est trouble; we hate 90 adopt dIEstic nseas-
ures. but we've GOT more than z good iniid
TO hold him personally responsible for tae
number Vol drinks we're missing oy ""
swlpin' Of that goin away snN.'n-
The main object Of this article. however,
IL ter congratulate Alaali or IN tact Lhas
II has rained and we Intend ter DC y wi,h
out iutrudin' Our own personal anair splse
OF all the yerium Sappses hetwlSt tnl .s
md shutdown. We are thankful 70 inlorte
our readers that we didn't get wel, thousn
we was near 1t.
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being given as Mr.. Hull. q Binghamton
tobacconist. It had been carefully arrang-
ed, and there We're many Deiehbors around
10 spread abrund the news uf the eNtraOr-
binary find OF fossil remains, The crowd
soon swciled TO thousands from all parts or
the neiEhborinC country and on the follow.
ing day four medical men of the neighOor
hood, with scientific pretensions, inyesti-
gated the giant and accepted the hoax
without the least hesitancy Later II was
examined by a Or. B0yntOn OF Syracuse, n
man possessed II some antiquarian knoVl-
edge, and he came TO the conclusion thGt 10
was a statue made some 100 years ago Dy
the Jesuit fathers. He at once offered SD
600 for IT.
By way OF an advertisement Invitations
were sent 10 Prof. Agassz, Prof HUI,
state geologlst; S. b. Woolworth, secre-
lary OF the New York state university,
and large delegation OF scientific men
from different parts OF the slate. me ne
State geologist pronounced the hgure 70 ee
a statue Of great antiquity. Prof. ward
who allied the chair Of natural science ~
Rochester university, saidi AithoHsh NOT
going back o. the stone age, II Is never
Iheless desor,lng Of toe attention OF arch
acoioglsts." prominent clergy man wrote
This Is not dining coWryed by 2
man: bur IL n the face OF one who lived
Ike ali me earth: the very Image and child
of Cod" Many sci sntilc societies took the
matter up and expressed thelr gullo4HtE
more or less strongly in resolutions.
The man 10 first puncture the n0a1 was
Prof Aarsh.-O c Marsh Of Hale-who
made a point by asserting that gypsum
was soluble IN 100 parts OF water yet the
lace 81 The giant was smooth and little
dissolved. though surrounded by wet earth,
proving that tae burial must have been Of
very recent date.
out Of the hoax before Barnum introduced
the petrihed man 70 his circus. Whlle the
inquire was being exhibited in Boston Mr..
Sala says that to his own knowledge the
drawings amounted TO about $4,000 night
for a considerable time. Notwithstanding
Prof. Marsh's findings and other hard
blows the hoax received from other quar-
when 4. may be said TO have died a
natural death
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pesANp WAS IRREGULAR.

"e' 2 Japsn Has Checked Sale,
!, eut II Still Leads.
4 81 s01E, Ansust i.--pan Talmare's
~ ,.yi Daring the week there was
s.r,.. .,le'nlarity Of demand ana ultra.
Sa,,A,a. n maintains. This experience is
! lre,,,tsn e trade In midsummer natu.
II "a s, to limited operations and
IA ,,, Wy In moderate way and nj
ID or rivals thereby securing more
| ss,l.d i,esaly mlllea stock. No one N
,suser, .sa be Obliyious to the destruc.
. fpr. b1 d,r, weather. weeyil and worm :,
hard sovr~ever. little complsint hs :
ne psst ~ such score and tbe 'i press mas
Eias ID ss.ssson, is likely to snd e r"lI !;
sin ia IN y have checked IFS soin a aa,
+ tie Hs sne lead. It finds a Close s anu
e inonIrr the South note steady brt
= 0rlesn. along the Atlantic coast
= nsiptS suickened movement 'a arm
N the matter Of prices,
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bnt. holders appear to be bit less con on
9S so ND more disposed to cultivate the
bSyer Although no SF aGfb arrivals ri mor o. s s
Lgp ~ bot SIM where moisture has neeh
Win t1 The n1 Growth has progressed RAPIDLY
Sn3 from such localities may come an g bca2
supply Several smal parcels Hsek nam and tie
,,,ra efYecf Of their arrival tends 70 MAKE
sellers plable and on the other hand' ouy
ers cautious. so,,o from abroad
nota sinorish movement. but prices hfm-
~ maintained. 49,. .o,o,ronhs r,ouisi.
ana crop movement TO d9 2ear 1fSii s66
rons Sales cleaned estimated) ~, 70
saeks, last year. 1881, 235 pockets
gtSady market buyers hGlSi1g on Carolina
Ia1uin t,.ar,enf TO date: Receipts, 40, 20
SrIP s' sales. 4554o barrels Fair INQUIRY
at former prices.
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ol4lsELEp THg oARolFF eIANT.
IT,. sou!ntor Who Was Paid S1o,ooo TOT
~ Barnun1's Biggest Fraud.

The Sculptor Who was raIu 0'0iS0
Barnun1's Biggest Fraud
San Francisco Examiner.
q robr.clo sala artist and sculptor who
:. =. nrasent in this city endeavorlng 70
a,sncse of the statue Of Faith" that has
bees wing in the Mechanics pavilion for a
number Of years, claims to have been the
maker Of the late P. 7 B@num's car
Tm Giant" figure on which the Snowman
is supposed to have made 100000 ana ma
hosxsd more people than by any OF his
other numerous and novel attractions.
The fgure, TO the many people VINO v,a.
tied Barnum's shows in those uAss, W.,
supposed to represent the petrlneu ioim 49,, -
80. "a. broad and we ghed three and one
haf ton tons It was supposed to have P Pee
dug out Of the earth a. csra,n' b M The fact
:, 70. = Il wns carved out Of gypsum an "!
inferred int less than year BEFORE ~ 'H'
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-03
Kllled bv Kerosene Can Explosion.

Port Arthur. Texas, August Miss Nena
sioezer. a Young lady who lived at Seeder-
iands thiss comfy fried to start q ire Ia
the Kitchen stove Monday. Everything pos.
sible was done to save the young lady's
life bnt despite MI efforts she .eien lass
night and the remains we're pf0nsYt nstr
and inferred yesterday.
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swanpinq lies

Ia nractieed. but don't swap OF Hunts
Lightning oil for a worthless article. Ak
YOUR druggist or merchant for free sam
pie bottle. IS,
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Unusually Priced Hosiery

Unusually Priced Hosiery
Ladies' Plain Lise Hose fine gauge seamless and stain
less Ladies' Fancy Dropstitch Seamless Stockings
two lines of specially good csc hosiery, at, T(Ir
per pair OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Underpriced Slippers
Ladies' TwoStrap Kid Sandals. with French heels;
Ladies' Three.Strap Kid Sandals with medium concave
heels; two numbers In specially good 200 slip. En-
pers, sale at, pair ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ayU
Ladies' Corsets
Batiste Summer Corsets In pink blue and white our
75c grade, priced during the Clearance sale. SsA~
at pair ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SOY
Batiste Grdes, In white pink and blue, 69c CO.
line priced during the Clearance sale at per pair - W
All 100 Corsets in w b. Warmers Thomson's 2E
Royal Worcester and r. & G., on sale at, pair SG
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Wash Taffeta Ribbons. in fancy pat
terms, for stocks; No. 40, &C.
IL 1-2c ribbons, at, yard ....... GDe5
White Wash Taffeta Ribbon, No. 40,
with embroidered dots, 15c 4 gs@
yard quality, at ............. W.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15
BEFORE WE CAN

use them, iron and gold must
first be got out of the ore. The
same principle applies to cod liv-
er oil. Its virtues are not in its
fatty matters; much less in its
sickening taste and smell. No
consumptive, or sufferer from any
other wasting disease, was ever
greatly benefited by the so-called
"plain cod liver oil. The shock
it gives to the nerves, the repul-
sion and disgust it excites in the
stomach, the outrages it commits
upon the senses of smell and
taste, are enough to spoil any
medicinal potency that may be
in it for the majority of people.
This-to say nothing about its
being indigestible. Yet there
has always been reason to believe
that, among the elements which
form cod liver oil, there ex-
listed curative properties of the
highest value. But it was neces-
sary to separate them from the
nauseating waste material with
which they were combined. This
was successfully accomplished in
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
and IN this efectave remedy,
made palatable as honey, we have
the very heart and soul of Pure
Cod Liver Oil, combined with the
Compound Syrup of HypophOs-
phites, Extracts of Malt and Wild
Cherry. These constitute tissue
builder, blood purifier, health
remover beyond comparison. Dis
ease yields to it with a complete
ness and rapidity which aston
ishes medical men quite as much
as it delights their patients. In
all wasting conditions, Scrofula
and Blood Disorders, La Grippe,
Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary
Affections, etc, it never fails to
relieve and cure. DIR. Louis W.
Bishop says: "I take pleasure in
saying / have found it most
efficient preparation, embodying
al of the medicinal properties
If a pure cod liver oil, in most
oalatable form" 1t stands in the
'front.' rank in the march of med
cine. Effective from the first
lose. Sold by all chemists here.
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The Fountain
MINERAL AN3 SODA WORKS

Make their drinks from water produced
by the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15
He COULDN'T SPEAK

Bilkins Suffering from a heavy cslsl
Il met forty-five different acQuaint.
ances this morning. and Just forty-fsur
of them told me of some cure for
cold.
Wife-Didn't the forty-ifth offer any
advice?
Bilkins-No; he had a cold himself
New York Weekly.
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A DISTINCTION

Her Mother-So you think Frederick
is beginning to have a clearer idea or
the responsibilities of a married man
Mrs. Latelywon-Not that. exactly.
he is finding out the duties of my hus-
band.-Puck.
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w
ART.

Office Kid Showing visitors eyer q
office)-This is the third ana
last room of the art department This
is the room where they mark in the
crosses where the body was founs.-
I life
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(Filix mas. These anthelmiutics sbouI,
be given early in the morning befora
the bird has been fed, and should he
followed in six hours with a desc az
castor oil.
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Barnstead
Purifying Still

and flavor with the best extracts pro-
durable on this planet, as well as being
sweetened with the finest cane sugar.
Distilled water for drinking purposes
passed through the "Palatable Attach
me ;" which makes 1t like fresh
spring water; delivered to all parts Of
the city in three-gallon demijohns.
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Ring Up 27O

for all kinds OF Soda and Mineral Wa
tiers. Brewed Ginger Beer a speciality.
Our patrons are cordially invited TO
call and inspect the works on Sheri-
dan street. off King street
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. q Z O. -
No. GIG.

HONOLULU LODGE No. s1s, q. p.
D. E., will meet In their new hall, or
Miller and Beretania streets, every
Friday evening.
BY order OF the z. r,
n, d. CoUZENS, Secretary.
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CASTLE & COOKE CO., Id.
HONOLULU.
Commission Merchants
SUGAR FACTORS.

AGENTS FOR
me Eva Plantation Company.
The Waialua Agricultural Co., Lta,
The Kohala Sugar Company.
The Waimea Sugar Mill Company.
The Fulton Iron Works, ST. Louis. Ne.
The Standard Oil Company.
The George F. Blake Steam Pump4.
Neston's CentrifugaIE
me New England Mutual Life Insur-
ancc Company, OF Boston,
The Aetna Fire Insurance Comnauv Of
Hartford, Conn.
fhs Alliance Assurance Company. of
London.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-28
SOME MEN LUCKY

Some men are naturally born
lucky" said man who came I'D from
the Gulf region yesterday, land they
seem to be perfectly immune from
any sort of ill-luck. | was coming I'D
on the New Orleans, Fort Jackson
and Grand Isle road the other morn
ing, and the man in charge of the
| train was telling me about a rather
singular thing that happened to Phil
| lip Douglas, the engineer, the day
before. He had pulled his watch out
to see what time il was The train
was rushing through a swampy part
| OF the route, and each side Of the
track was simply a perfect network
OF closely-knit weeds. The ring of his
watch, for some unaccountable reason.
slipped out of the stem, and the watch
tell out of the cab and rolled into the
weeds. There was no possible way
for the engineer to mark exactly the
spot where the watch had fallen. Be-
sides, the grass and weeds were thick.
and he knew if he stopped to make a
search it would break into the sched-
ule on which he was running. While
he was Jelllng me about the incident
the train came to sudden stop, the
fireman rushed out Of the cab. and
after going a few feet, stopped and
picked up something out of the weeds.
1t was the fine gold watch the engin-
eer had lost the day before, and it
had just kept ticking while it was
hid in the wilds of the swampy region.
The remarkable thing about the mat
ter is that the engineer should have
stopped within few feet of where he
dropped the watch, and should have
found the timepiece at all in the
heavy growth of weeds and grass. 1t
was simply a bit of good luck. No
time was lost by the engineer in re-
covering his lost timekeeper, for he
pulled his train into the station across
the river according to the schedule
arrangement. Hereafter he said he
would look upon the watch as having
much power for good, and he would
allow it to take the place of the rab
bits foot and the buckeye, which he
has been carrying in his pocket
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-28
MRS. GARIBALDFS COURAGE.
Her Fierce Struggle With the Brazil
ian Forests


Garibaldi says: Nothing of much
Importance happened to Anita after
that time except continued dangers
caused by the war, in which her only
food was meat and her bed the
saddle" And yet it was after this
that she made the dreadful trip
through the forest of Las Antas with
her baby strung in a handkerchief
about her neck, trying, by breathing
on 1T, to keep it from freezing. The Re
publican army had been weakened by
many dlsasterOus engagements ano was
obliged to retire from the siege OF the
capital and make long, toilsome re-
treat across the mountains. The
mountains and rivers of Brazil are
full OF fatigues and dangers from wild
beasts even in the fairest of seasons.
but now the rivers were swollen into
raging torrents by the rain, and the
only means of transportation was
few mules and fewer horses. It
rained necessarily for nine days; pro-
visions became scarce and many died
Of starvation and exposure. Here the
brave Brazilian almost lost her cour-
age. When it became at all possible
to move forward she was mounted on
the only remaining horse, with her g.
months-old babe tied about her neck
Garibaldi remaining to take care of
the few mules and helpless people
left to him-acd in despair pushed
ahead. She finally reached the edge
of the forest, and almost tainted with
Joy when she discovered little band
Of her husbands men who had made
q Ere in a clearing and where gathered
about it. They Immediately made
room for her and one of them took
the apparently dying child from her
neck, wrapped it in his poncho, which
he had warmed at the fire, and soon
revived it. Then, and only then,
after all the long days of extreme
suffering and danger, tears came to
the eyes Of the brave mother Carl
baldi afterward referred to this jour
rey as the most terrible he had even
known.-Lena Lindsay Pepper, in
AUGUST ChautauCuan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-28

and covered with gals and open sores
where the eggs of insects have been
deposited and nurtured These
wretched beasts typify and express
the whole mistaken method, as moth
ing else could, and offer a field for the
S. P. G. A, which would leave it
bankrupt in sympathy and energy at
the first glance.
The smaller streams, which the logs
first enter, are mere dry cracks in
the country, with an occasional stag
nant pool, during most of the dry
season, but when the rains have lasted
for fortnight, they become torrents
and except the very smallest, will
float the largest logs. Exactly as in
our own pine and hemlock forests
the logs gradually find their way tc
some river, where there is less cur
rent and more water, and here they
are caught by 'boom," collected into
RATS, and SO to the sea and the hold
Of a ship.