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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

TTERE is a cottage containing i've
rooms, which can be erected foE
q very small SUI Of money.
considering the amount Of conven-
4ences contained. In building a cheap
house, and n that shall be comfort
able and convenient, the dimension.
81 the roons must necessarily be
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

Inseveral places in this country, es-
pecialy in the west, experiments are
bein5 made with the hope Of curing
tuberculosis by concentrating the suns
rays upon the chests OF the sufferers.
The reflector is generally a concave
mirror about three feet in diameter,
sonstimes Overlaid with blue glass.
AIlthe light reflected from it is con-
cenFated upon an area six inches in
diateter. Thus an intense blue light
is btained, which, it is asserted, is
sufeiantly strong to pass entirely
thrdgh the body, and even to repro
duo a picture placed upon the back.
TIL patients chest is barred and he is
seasd in front Of the reflector. The
inmse light is thrown upon his chest
fotwo hours or moreleach day, It is
astrted that the light penetrates the
luz and destroys the bacillL-N. Y.
Tbune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

ranging in the forest in winter, came across traveller half
All the cold. He took pity on him, and invited him to 60 to
S Z their way the man kept blowing upon his fingers. why
SAID the Satyr, who had seen little of the world. "To
al ands; they are nearly frozen" replied the man. Arrived
thew the Sayr poured out a mess Of smoking pottage, and laid
beforf, ane traveller, who at once commenced blowing at it with all
is might "What, blowing agan2" said the Satyr. rs it not hot
roughly Yes, taIth, answered the man, 1T is hot enough in all con-
that is just the reason why blow at it." "Be off with YOU"
Satyr in alarm, I will have no part with a man who can blow
"a cold out of the same mouth"
hN SggaEa5+ car be more offensive to one Of z sincere heart than he that
IS him. behind his back.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

a fair amount Of hooV space. and pre-.
sents an attractive exterior. a house
may be simple enough to be cheap, yet
with the parts well proportional. al.
together an attractive feature Of the
surrounding landscape.
This design is especially adapted ia
an inside lot and shows an exterior
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

one cup Of raspberry juice. the
Juice Of one lemon. and two table
s|poonfuls Of pineapple Juice sweaien
TO taste, and chill on ioe.-Home Mag
aHine.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

hAapis-When did the star stop
explaining that the scenery and
ste properly were not realistic
eRgh?
pyer-When he accidentally fell.
Uqgh the H~aD-doo9-Iudge.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

small, as every square foot Of space
added to the ground plan Of a struc-
ture increases the quantity Of ma
terials that go into the building and
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1903-09-12

must be considered In estimating the
cost, yet It is not wise to build so
cheaply that the future value Of the
building may be doubtful. The plan
here offered is well arranged and has
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-29

he'd forgot TO shut the hen house door But the thing
he'd forgotten the qualifying clause in old Watts
Il jest want 70 remark continued Watt. that
having whole nation of sood honest kinfolks some
shame polecat and that tenor voice hain't any
particular guaranty of truthful lips
Then he laid open the entire circumstance regard
travelled length and breadth Of Gakunda
4eg ana an over the talIl country oeyohQ duuea-
Inc next day afternoon every relative OF Lume
in the whole region attending another family
union in the horse sheds Lume bawled and begged,
but the Dodds were made OF hardy stock ana didn e
propose have their good dragged in the mire
Of Gehunda without letting the natives know that he
wasn't upheld bg his knf0l6s When they got through
with him he had been officially thrown out of the
church. the choir and the Sunday school They took
his resignation from the board Of supervisors au6
packed him of to Ohio. bag and baggage.
The last I heard OF him he doing a turn I'm a
minstrel show that was making one-night stands
through Missouri and Arkansas-which is differ
ent from throwing tenor voice al the speaker OF the
house in Albany.
and stayers somehow I can't help thinking that old
Watt Ely got about the right dividing line
most Of us can. There's such thing as being slayer
and IL almost as bad breed as me east gutter.
But thing is sure. The politician who don't make
nois farm don't know the first principles OF good poll
tics. He can smash the moral law into knding wood
in log Of other particulars but If he keeps this
commandment sound he viii have more followers than
wagonload Of fodder in pasture OF hungry steers
And the funny part of it is that good share Of the
modern white ribbon practical reformers' who have
kept the whole moral from their youth up
to forget this tenet the minute they break into
politics while the boss who would shake rail-
road without winking makes this the one plank In
his confession of faith.
Now. Ned if you don't want me to run on at such
rat mustn't write the things that stir Up
al my old political dander Just keep pruning of the
cutters and grating the s0yers and you'll land the
and the ranch is the place I've struck yet for
solid comfort IT beats the executive mansion and a.
seat i'm the senate all hoOw-fOr I've tried em both
WILLIAM BRADLEY.
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BY Forrest Crissey.

for company but Iume pushed inside without waiting
for invitation. Then he unburdened his soul in
double quick time and made clean breast of the
whole business Before Watt could open up Lume be-
gan whine for quart
1--WE stood by YOU and rode this town night and
day for you, Mr.. Ely he said, 'and good many times
I've run the risk of running voice in order fur
chairman OF our county coAaltlee ana the boys VIII
stand by anything YOU say. An Ser wants is to md
ticket you're ST strong IN the county that a little
thing Ike this won't hurt you a bit-but Lord a.
mighty. it'n ruin for ali time"
Look heTei" cut in Watt. You've done as dirty a
trick as ever was put 40 by lOw-down politician.
But you have rode for me when the light close.
Besides, want 10 show my gratitude TO the Almighty
for not making responsible for the spelling OF your
voice SO you just go ahead vita the lie you've
started with and I'll DENY fixing the ticket to
Nose or anybody elsenot until elections Does
that satisfy your
Lume was 50 overjcyed at tis that he didn't quite
eaten the fun force OF the qualifying clause and he
rode back home feeling that there still hope His
nrst move was to send word in roundabout way,
Nose that he better take mis- question Watt Ely.
He did. and the county chairman's answer was:
We'll. what OF it? I don't deny it. Luune SAYS it's
so an he sings in the Disciple choir an mighty
respectable member OF the community
Ihat gave LuIne a new lease of life He caught at
the straw that Watt had thrown out and in hour
was 0enng MS e1clIed uncles and cousins that the
county chairman had done him dirt"-probaby for
the reason that he wanted to kill him for
The whole township was torn uD by the fight and the
result was the heaviest that was ever polled.
Meantime, Lume, who was considerable green at
lying began to hear from his conscience and grow
white around the gills. And when the votes were
counted and the footing the tally sheet announced
had mighty sickly looking smile of triumph ON bis
face for who had ahead of his ticket
After the election clerks had put up their papers old
Watt mounted q cracker box in the general store.
There light in his eye that meant business and
the boys knew it.
Before begin to talk want any man here who
thinks I'm q gutter who has ever known me 10
out in meeting"
Not man spoke and ne took a swie from the cider
pitcher before going ahead While he clearing
his throat Lume slipped out of the crowd saying that
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good chance in time to go to the legislature if ne
could only get the right sort Of a start But the
lar run-ape-j Jump IN order to land him IN Albany
among the lawmakers.
over in the valley Of Gahunda in the same town
ship, was Watt Ely, solid old Yankee VINO had
the Republican politics of the settlement for several
years Young Lume had had enough sense to make
up strong TO Watt and ride the town" whenever
there was close fight on, and bis tenor voice
TOOK SHINE 10 the boy and rather nursed Lume's
political ambitions telling him his day would come
some time And It did come at a certain town caucus
When WalL sot the Ola boys together and put Lume
on the head Of the ticket for supervisor There
a streak Of tenor melody from the town house to
TO carry the news to his wife
But after the first burst Of song the leader OF the
choir got busy meditatfng he was to make
the big that would give him the impetus for
leap into the legislature. Nothing commonplace like
a good record would answer the purpose to his no
and show them that they needed tenor voice in the
councils of the state at Albany. He out into
took shape-for Lume's mind about nimble as
cove oysters. But when he had once bedded him
AT the end of three hours communion with himself
Lume saw the way from the town house to the cap
would make the other figures his ticket look sick
and prove that he was the most popular man that
had ever showed his head above the waters Of poll
tics in the Country beyond Judea'
And the way he planned 20 accomplish this feat
proved to himself that he was cut out from the be-
ginning OF creation for statesman Oh! but it was
a cunning trick! He sure that nobody else had
thought Of such a smart turn. Moses Sier, who was
named for justice of the peace had taken collection
had gone to Slippery Elm to get the Republican
tickets printed so they could be distributed aoon
the voters during Sunday and Monday But Tsune had
decided to DO a little ticket business his own hook
so he sent bis younger brother the burg,
tickets printed the kind of paper as the Re
publican ballots. only the name of Luman Dodd was
substituted Ia the place Of the Democratic candidates
name. These he'd use where they'd do the most good.
Sunday L'1me was in his place at the head of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-29
Author of THE Country
Boy"

EAR NED-Tm glad that my passing remarks
- on the general cussedness Of grafters and
singers gave you the consolation they were
~ intended 20 carry. Judging from the letter
before me. you seem to be learning good deal in
short space OF time about the different species into
which the general family of politicians is subdiVided:
stayers
The atmosphere Of politics doesn't seem especially
suited to the raising Of spiritual Orchids but there
isn't another field Of human effort in which the
rougher virtues shine to better advantage or the
meannesses OF the human mind can crop Up IN more
contemplate way. The thing best loved in poll
ticIan IS shat which makes burdOc the best hated
weed on earhthe quality of sticking through thick
and thin good oldfashioned dock burr is the sort
Of floral emblem for when going into the ups
and downs Of politics; no matter whether your cam
paign fund so cents. S50.000 the burrs and
real stayers VIII stick tight cannot separate
them from you without individually pulling them
Into pieces they may want you 60 some other road
than the you're set travelling. but they'll stay
with you to the end and not poster with lot
OF naggng questions and arguments; they aren't for
ever reminding you that they expect you some time
10 square accounts with them Santa Claus basis,
hard frost when the first wind Of political adversely
strikes you
I've sat up good many nights and burned heap
Of strong tobacco trying TO figure out just where
slayer leaves of and gutter begins I've about
come 70 the conclusion that the line Of separation
shifts itself about as often as the bed OF the missouri
river. However, I've sized It ND about this way
When political bedfellow personally and at first
hand proves to you that hes more kinds Of a hog.
liar and general aI-around traitor than hts
enemies set him out 20 be. you're warranted in cut
ting him out Of the bunch on giving due notice Of
your intentons-and the boys can't rightly call
gutter for doing it,
This question of the ethics Of quitting and staying
better illustrated, TO my mind, than in a
township election, when was boy, back in York
state. Up I'm the region called the Hin Country be
relatives in the valley Of Gahunda than rabbit
was the leader Of the choir in the little Disciple
the handsomest and most numerously connected
young man in the whole Hin Country, he stood
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UP to the point Of the vindica ton OF
which I started to speak.
Recently quite notable divorce trial
was in progress in New York That
courtly husband. the chap who was
cast into the teeth of ell OF us married
chaps by our wives on that voya sc. was
suing his pretty, gracious and Womanly
wife for a separation The ease was
finally chuc6ed out of court by the in
oigneEt trial judge. who expressed his
nrm conviction that every one Of the
charges against the wife had been de-
hberately ana maliciousIy trumped UP.
and sOlemnly stated his entire belief
that the wife had always been as good
a woman as the boundaries OF the world
contained. And now the wife has pend
ing against the cOurtiy husband a suit
Tor divorce Of her own, in which ii is
specifically. and with great elaboration
set forth that he had been coarsely
brutal to her almost from tlTe hour of
their marriages. that Of course, she
must have been suffering under his
cruelty on board the steamer. at the
very time the wives of the rest of us
were calling our attention to his alb
sorpuoE in and devotion to his wife.
leave you to ina CINE the jubilant
Jay with which. every evening upon my
arrival home, 1 tossed the clippings
from the New York papers. giving
lengthy accounts of this affair, into the
lap of my wife
I may be old Tige or Towze or what
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choir behind organ and he celebrated the occasion
by singing solo that made of the sisters wipe
box any direction in that audience without hitting
a aunt, uncle cousin of Luman Dodds-and they
all proud Of the distinction that had come to
the family in the shape of humans nomination Out
in the horse sheds, after the services Lume held
il agreed that every OF them suspected Of
having the slightest influence IN the community should
get out and ride" from Mondays sun-up until the
close Of the polls Tuesday Lume told them Of course,
he'd be electedpo question about thatbut he wanted
TO roll the biggest majority carried by
didate IN Bethlehem township.
Monday he started out tc ride the township HIM
self All was smooth sailing until he struck the Val
ley Of Gahunda and drove in at Nose Siers bars TO
discuss the outlook and plan for special hustng
on Tuesday In about second after Nose planted his
foot the hub Of the buggy he took from wallet
OF the special Democratic tickets that Iume had
hired tin peddler to distribute among the
the Hin country Democrats along with some bright
new dippers and nutmeg graters.
"Lume," asked Nose do you know anything about
this? Ever see one Of these before have anything
TO 90 with the printing or peddling Of these baots?
Not being a quick thinker and knowing that he'd
got TO speak up right quick or stand convicted Of
swered:
Never, some one is trying to throw dirt into my
grist. Do you think Nose Siler, that a young
who has sung the choir Of the Disciple church
as long as have and has got the chances that
front of me would do this kind Of thng?'
I've got my dees that subject" said siler "but
all I'm going to say right is that ones done
H. and that that feHer's scurvy hound that I'M
less find one who won't deny it, I'm going to
lay 1t to your door-and my friends IN Gahunda val
ley viii strip your hide OF tomorrow at the polls
That all, and Lume continued his ride the most
disconsolate in the whole Hill country beyond
Judea- But as Silers threat kept altering through
his mind he caught at sentence him
ray Of hope; Unless fihd one who won't deny
it." 1t hour before mental mill had ground
this grist and brought him to decision He turned
his horse around started for Watt EIys clear at
the lower end Of the long valley. BY the time was
of the watch dogs with whip In his other hand it
was o'clock in the morning. Old Watt wasn't dressed
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mad, as the women say, way about
him. His wife was a pretty and gra-
cious girl Of % or %, vivaciOus, bright,
feminine-a womanly woman, and thor
oughly wholesome.
We'll. this husbands public treat
ment Of his wife was about as perfect
and cOurtly as anything ever expected
TO see out Of the pages of a piece Of fic-
ton. Fact is, it made the rest of US feel
rather Oafish even before our wives had
fallen into the habit of commenting
upon that ideal husband When, how
ever our wives, early in the voyag
did fall into the habit, most Of US began
to conceive a sort Of instructive dislike
for that courtly, dilettante husband.
The pair had not been married very
long. but even that fact does not suff-
GENTLY account for the wealth of atten-
ton which he bestowed upon her. After
dinner, for instance, he would take
about the half of a cigarette with the
rest Of us men in the smoking room,
and then he would rejoin his wife.
snuggle alongside Of her in his steamer
chair, furtively hold hands with her
and read Browning and Omar TO her
The rest of us-well. we'd smoke about
four black cigars apiece in the smoking
room after dinner, and then, like as
not we'd engage in a little pokerish-
ness until bedtime, or after, leaving our
wives to talk IL over in, the music room.
And the fellow was forever making
pretty compliments to his wife-not
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even il he isn't the sort TO attempt to
work the grand manner on his spouse.
The fellows a prig, If you want my
opinion / used to say. in self-defense,
when my wife would deliver herself of
these little expressions at turning-in
time.
A prig,' she would reply with an
elevation Of her brows, because he has
such a fine understanding of the ma
Iure OF Woman-because he devotes
himself to the comfort and happiness of
his wife? Because he cultivates the
the-er-spiritual relationship that a
woman Graves, even if she be married.
and that should exist between ell men
and their wives? Impossible! You do
him an njustice-because, no doubt.
you do not understand him
That's all right I would get back,
houndering somewhat helplessly. but Il
strikes me that he's too Internally good
10 be true. I don't believe he's on the
level. How do we know that he doesn' t
browbeat and bullyrag his wife in pri-
Vate? There are Chesterfeldian ducks
like that, you know. How do we know
that, in their cabin, he dOesn't-er-
well. pinch her arms2
Nonsense. my wife would reply to
such suggestions, and that would set
tie it.
It disliked that courtly husband. as
1 say pretty cordially before the end
of the voyage.
VOLTA! Now you have the incident
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REVENGE is SWEET

Tar be It from me- remarked a
Wsshingtonian who has been going up
and down the world a good deal OF late
years. Ito Islander the whole tribe Of
married men by making the general
and sweeping statement that the aver
age married man experiences a sort Of
sloating, ghOulish glee when a sequence
of events gives him a signal vindica-
tion in the eyes Of his wife; but there
are times"
well, just now I'm in the enjoyment
Of the afterglOw Of one Of these acutely
delightful vindicatlons; and If you'll eX-
cuse my hOarseness, which is attributa-
bic TO my prolonged chOrtling-fOr II
was more fun for me to win out in this
thing than Il ever was for Hannibal to
take a city-Ill tell you about it.
Two years ago last summer my wife
and /. after some months Of aimless but
enjoyable wanderings about the conti-
nent. left England for New York as
passengers on one of the ten-day
steamers. We prefer the slow boats to
the greyhounds because we find them
more cosy and homelilCe, as IL were
the slow boat voyasers don't feel called
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broadly nor in the transparent man
ner Of the married fraud who queers his
game By spreading it on too thickly,
but skilfully, delicately and, as il
seemed, with perfect sincerity. The
chap was adept enough not to make it
appear that he Was-er-offensivel in
love with his wife: but he lowered
about her, waited upon her, anticipated
her needs-was, in brief, too serum
tiferously nice to her for any use in this
vide world-until it began 70 crate on
the nerves Of the rest Of us-the rest Of
the married men, that is to say.
This state of mind would have been
sufficiently bad for us had not our
wives in the privacy of our cabins,
opened up on US with cheerful little
dabs as to the ideal relationship be-
tween that husband and wife Ny wife
signing and emerging from a reverie
had no complaint to make; certainly
not; all men were not alike, nor, in
deed, all women; that were too much
TO expect; but, dear me, was not a
woman with such a gallant, attentive.
scrupulOusly cOnsiderate husband-mer-
cy on US, was not such a woman to be
envied, though You know how they
get those little dabs in-sort o. slant
Wise, and the PHRASES quite innocuous
OF sound-but every word barbed for
the fellow who feels in his heart that he
isn't such a worse sort Of a husband,
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upon TO put on Tugs for the purpose
of living up to the character of the
steamer as they do on board the crowd
ed speeding liners; and we were in no
hurry, anyway
There we're just tweuty-six first
cabin passengers on board this fine, big.
comfortable ten-day steamer-mostly
married couples. They were seasoned
voyagers and cOngenial people. and all
in all 1 can't recall a more enjoyable
ocean ride than that one
The voyage had but one haw-my
wife found something to throw up 10
me. She did it gently and amiably, il
is true, being a woman of adroit mat
rimonial diplomacy. But what she had
to say on the subject I am going to
mention ranked within nett stuck,
TO be more expressive.
That which my wife threw up to
me was the attitude Of one Of the other
voyagers toward his wife This man
was verging upon 40 and he was un-
deniably clever in the dilettante man
ner. He knew books and art and music
and the world; had sailed in many wa
tiers, was Versed In the languages and
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There is more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than an other diseases put
together and until the last few years was
supposed to be incUrable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease and prescribed local remedies
and by constantly falling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced ii incurable.
Science has proven Catarrh TO be a con-
stituuOnal disease and therefore requires
cOnstitU donai treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. J. Cheney q.
Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only cousfitu-
tional cure on the market. It is taken in
ternally in doses from ten drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system They
otter one hundred dollars for any case It
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
tirnCnials Address
T. J. CHENEY q Co. Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c
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ever you call the yaIler dog that doesn't
try TO let on that he's an Italian grey
hound OF a Pomeranian spaniel with
hair Of silk-bUt there aren't any
symptoms Of a divorce i'm my family
and it's better than a billion to one
shot that there never Will be.
My wife has a certain reflective look
in her eye, nowadays, every time I hap
pen to make use Of the word counter
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