Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 214, Ed. 1, Sunday, May 17, 1891 Page: 4 of 16
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Bge is of special importance so lar as re
3ates to health The rocks or the grand
prairie formation lie not far beneath the
surface as a rule and are in their strata
with more or less open or porous matter
filling a few inches of space between them
Tntheso strata there are frequent breaks
so when the surface water settles down to
the rocks it soon finds a means of getting
between them where it flows entirely
sealed off as it were by a rock larrier
above Once between the strata and it can
exert no influence whatever upon the sur
fara
Writ ing further on some causes of
Dr Elzey says the present season of
the year is the proper one for carefully
looking after all impurities nbont oies
premise An impurity so insignificant as
to appear scarcely worthy of the slightest
attention might cause a spell of sickness
and possibly a death Remove every im-
purity promptly and use plenty of slacked
lime in his earnest advice not forgetting
to give special attention to all stables pens
and yards when animals are kept and to
get and keep them as clean as it is possible
for them to be made
Any person may conduct a very interest-
ing chemical xporimenttendingtoacbange
of color in flowers Fill a glass tumbler
say half full of ether to which add about
cine tenth of its bulk of liquid ammonia
Both mav be had at any drug store Dip
our cut flowers into this compound If
1 tie arc red ur violet they will come out of
ii immersion a beautiful bright green The
same process will change the color of al-
most ativ flower experimented upon Tho
jpper petal of tho sweet ped for instance
bvomes a dark blue while the lower petal
tictuinis a blight green White flowers
sually change to yellow red ceraniums to
blue and so on Most yellow flowers retain
their natural color Plunge the charged
flowers into pure cold water and tliev will
retain their new lint for several hours
tcr which they will gradually take on
thir natural colors
A scientist writes that many who
nkiin of sleepless nights and weak backs
it all to the shape in which their beds
ai e made up Tho usual plan is to give the
head portion of the bed a slight elevation
and then make the rest of it on to the foot
as near level as possible Notunfrequcntly
after passing the middle of the bed there is
j slignt dessent to the foot This is not the
best way by any means The bed should
be so made as to form a gentle rnrvo from
head to foot the middle being the lowest
Tirst make the head as high as you wish it
then descend gradually to where the hips
w ould rest then rise to the foot leaving
1 lie foot almost as high as the head before
the pillows are put on Try it and you will
be pleased with the arrangement
The Boston Journal of Chemistry says all
cooks ought to understand burthcy dont
that to fry well the lard should be very hot
before the article to be fried is put into it
Iard excessively lint cannot penetrate it
at once cooks the outside of the article with
which it comes in contact and closes the
pores so to speak after which the rest of
the cooking is moro like a bake than a fry
But on the other hand lard merely warm
penetrates the article through and through
and leaves it when done perfectly satur-
ated with grease and very little more di
gestablo than a brickbat It is this cold
lard process of frying that makes fried food
unwholesome
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Ho for Aransas Harbor the Coming Deep Water
City of the Texas Coast
Buy your tickets to the great auction sale
of acreage property adjoining Aransas
Harbor Tev on the 21st 22d and 23d days
of May IsOl at which time will be sold
our miles of bay front sub divided into
une two three five and ten acre lots
One third cash balance in one and two
ears with interest at 0 per cent per annum
on deferred payments
KiJunine the following statements
from Market garden near
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WJ peisS1i to litre atKaitiST 7
stca melon iids to acre ai jocv
cabbage i2 to acre at tt
sieil cauliflower 07
bean- - bu to acre at SI
i en acres laud at
Three room cottage
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heiu rru iciiE crop crip Amu
Bushels Price Price
Potatoes US 100 0 75 1GS 75
lorn A 0 40 33 00
Tomatoes liO 4 OU 2 00 lDU OJ
Peas iV 3 00 l0 217 M
Mean W 3 10 ll 416 UJ
Melons 1CU 2 10 STUOu
CabbaRO SHOO 7 MOOD
I ulltioutT 7W0 I IUOOJ
Total -1966 2
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state ok Trvs
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and subscribed before me this 12th
Ji ot IVbruarv 11 II 11 Xohveix
jIj Xolary Public
Aransas County Tex
ItFCAPITULATlON
Total receipt rM66 25
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Net profit JU 25
To All Agents
Maj Is and lij ou may sell round trip tickets
to Houston at double the child s rate account
handsale of acreage property at Aransas
Harbor outheJl y and 21 of Jlav Limit
tiekeis Mas 20 ls91 A Kaulkxeil
General passenger and ticket agent
rullowinjj Initrnctlons
A Swedish girl who has not been over very
long is employed by a family residing in
Normal park She understands but littlo
English but she is intelligent and quick
to catch the meaning of those who con-
verse with her The place she has now is
tho first she has ever filled in a city and
many things are new and strange to her
The home at which she is employed stands
in the middle of a block of fine residences
between which are no dividing fences or
marks to indicate separate ownerships
One morning just after she had come to
the place she is now filling the lady of the
house made her understand that she wished
the snow swept from the walks about and
In front of the house The girl went at
the task and nothing more was thought of
it until her prolonged absence caused a
search to be made when she was found up
the street nearly half a block working in-
dustriously to clear the walks of the whole
neighborhood Then the sphere of her use-
fulness was more clearly indicated to her
Tho incident recalls to mind another A
lady whose neighbor had been ailing said
to her Irish servant girl Norah go over
and see how old Mrs Smith is The girl
after a prolonged absence returned and
remarked Mrs Smith wasnt up yet but
we looked in the family Bible and ns near
as we could figure it out shes Mxtv one
years seven months and tw enty two
old Chicago Jieraiu
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ABOUT ADVERTISING
PRACTICAL IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE AD-
VERTISING PAY
BY NATHANIEL C FOWLER JR OF BOSTON EXPERT AT ADVER-
TISING
Paper No S Copyrrght 1591 by Nathanial C Fowler Jr
J Heres an advertising axiom acceptable
by unanimous vote of business test proof
The newspaper is the main trunk of adver-
tising all else are branches dependent
upon the trunk for support
Itight here it is opportune for me to say
that I am neither directly nor indirectly
connected or interested in any publication
and consequently anything which I may
say in favor of newspaper advertising is
not assisted by financial or other bias
Circulars cards lithographic work of
every kind printed novelties leather
celluloid or anything else in the way of
useful or ornamental novelty made of any
kind of material to be used for advertising
purposes have their places in the economy
of advertising They have been used and
always will be used by large and small ad-
vertisers
The catalogue and descriptive circular
are essential to complete consistent and
successful advertising
Business cannot be carried on without
descriptive matter
Promiscuous circulation of printed mat
terthe sending of catalogues or circulars
to so called lists of names even if such
names are genuine is worth comparatively
little and can pay at best irremittent divi-
dends
Tho field of the catalogue and circular
is to give information The advertisement
is to make people send for such informa-
tion
The man who writes or calls for a cata-
logue ou circular will read it when he will
throw into the waste basket the same
thing sent to him unrequestcd
Advertising in regular periodicals sifts
out the imjiossible customer from the pos-
sible it allows the advertiser to rake the
ground with his own rake and to gather
in the peoplo with whom he can hope to do
business no more and no less it reduces
the field of the world into tho field of his
business it places the advertiser in direct
connection with the people he lias chance of
reaching
The newspaper advertisement should do
no more than suggest a call or correspond-
ence If the possiblo customer calls or
writes opportunity is iven the advertiser
not only to show the goods but to furnish
tho inquirer with descriptive matter which
he is sure to read at leisure and study care-
fully because he has put put himself upon
record as being interested in the goods ad-
vertised
Advertising in periodicals docs the pre-
liminary work at the lowest possible ex-
pense which work cannot bo done in any
other way for a hundred times the cost
The advertiser who believes in hand-
bills lias only to stand upon the sidewalk
when lwys are passing them out to bo for-
ever convinced that this kind of advertising
is worth as near to next to nothing as it can
be without being nothing
Let us bring flyer matter to practical
business figures Ten thousand cheaply
printed circulars cost 13 A boy to give
them out cither from house to house or to
pedestrians will charcc say 2 If he
leaves only one at a house and gives only
qne at i time on the street he will not
make much on the job at i20
are not built that way AVc
must take them as they are In order to
argue from the worst side of the argument
wc will call it 17 for the circulars and the
distribution If the boy is anything like
other boys and he probably is he will at-
tempt to give ten circulars to everyone
who passes or one and throw away nine
lOOOciieulars to 100 people 10000 to 1000
If the circulars are left at 1000 houses
ten at a house and the chances are the boy
will average more than that 500 of these
lots will be blown from the steps leaving
500 lots to do the business of the oOO lots
remaining about 100 servant girls will pick
them up to take them into the house of tho
100 lots earned into the house possibly
seventy five of them will be seen fifty
more or less looked over
Let us recapitulate out of the 10000 cir-
culars fifty may be read More or less of
tho remaining 9950 will be seen blowing
around on the streets or stuck in the gut-
ter giving some reason to think that a
moderate amount of good may come from
oi re- iinse not actuallv
UK city om If the circuit
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K fr pirccu uuoul one
Tv r t OTV finntr1 nrA nf tlif
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held in the hand
are distributed on the
man or woman in fifty will
circulars anu out or the
fifty about two will keep them and out of
he two about ono will read the contents
-This reduces the pulling power of circulars
given away upon the street to a value of 2
per cent
If these statements seem exaggerated let
the doubter follow the circular distributor
from house to house and spend half an hour
beside any man or boy distributing circu-
lars upon the street to see the street and
sidewalk fill up with that which the mer-
chant has paid good money for
1 do not care to put myself upon record of
stating that circulars never have paid be-
cause they have in exceptional cases but 1
am willing to stake my reputation upon tho
statement that an inch advertisement in a
decent paper is wortli more than an acre of
circulars
Had the circular matter which cost the
merchant 17 been placed in a small space
in a good newspaper from three to six
times as many people as the circulation of
tho paper t ould have been given opportu-
nity to see the announcement
Kvery reader of a pajier does not read
every advertisement nor does he see every
advertiscmentbut it is fair to presume that
a w ell worded and fair sized advertisement
in any publication will reach tho eye of
about 75 per cent of the readers most of
whom may be possibly customers
When a man pays 1 cent or a 1 for any-
thing from a newspaper to an illustrated
magazine of arthe or she is obliged to make
an effort requiring the expenditure of a defi
nite sum of money No matter how small
that sum may be the spending of it is posi-
tive proof that tho buyer desires that which
lie has bought He purchases it for no
other porjwse than to read it If he reads
even a small pirt of it he must see some of
tho advertisementsand his eyes must dwell
upon those advertisements which announce
goods he is interested in or which suggest
that he become interested in them
I am a strong disbeliever in any advertis-
ing medium which reaches the reader with-
out any effort being made by tho reader to
get it I do not care how beautiful the
paper may be how well written and how
well edited if it be thrust upon the public
unasked for Such are desultory papers at
best and contain nothing which the reader
would pay for for if ho would pay for them
they would not bo given him for nothing
The paper of free circulation has no
standing no backing no foundation it
generally appears but once it is thrown at
the reader without hitting him It has no
element of permanency and that which is
not permanent is worth about nothing
I have yet to be convinced of the value of
advertising in telcphono books free rail
road guides give-away-blue-books Fourth I
oi juiy programmes anuanytning else of
like nature which is distributed free with
the exception of first class theater pro
grammes which although distributed to
the audience can be considered paid for
as they really come tinder the price of tho
ticket and are of definite vaulue for the
time being
Advertising in mediums paid for is worth
at least twenty times more per copy cir-
culated than advertising in anything which
costs the receiver nothing
Directory advertising with the exception
of cover space may be considered as semi
desultory The directory is like a diction-
only one particular part of it at a time
any interest to the reader no one reads
ircctorv for pleasure and no one turns to
the next page to see what is upon it The
circulation of directories is extremely
small hardly one quarter as large as that
which they are supposed to have although
their reading circulation is unlimited The
reader grabs the directory turns to a cer-
tain name closes the book with a bang and
all is over If the advertiser believes in
directory advertising I suggest to him the
following test Let him past a five dollar
bill in any part of a directory among the
advertisements or among tho reading mat-
ter to see how long it will take for it to be
brought to lifjht If it be among the reading
matter it may be discovered If it be among
the advertisements it i3 about as secure as
it would be in the safe Nothing I have
said should bo taken as derogatory to trade
directory advertising for good trade direct-
ories are really encyclopedias of informa-
tion of limited circulation yet of the right
kind to make trade advertisements pay
A map or chart or picture may be beauti-
fully executed and the advertisement may
be allowed to occupy the space of the entire
Atlantic ocean It looks well when hung
up Let the advertiser before making a
contract look upon his own office walls and
see how little of this sort of trash is there
He may find some pasted up in the shipping
room but that locality is not tho arena of
the populace and about all the people who
will see it consist of his shipper and other
shippers
Do not make tho fatal mistake of consid-
ering that advertising space is not mer-
chandise It is as much so as the carpet on
tho floor or the flour in the flour barrel It
is no more a luxury than the buttons on the
pantaloons or tho lining of tho overcoat
The man who considers advertising a luxury
and advertises should have a guardian
placed over his business
Following is given a dodger circular
somewhat taken from life much reduced to
savo space
NOTICE
The Largest in the City
WALLPAPER WINDOW SHADES
LACE CURTAINS DRAPERY GOODS
Of A11 Kinds
JOHN G- SMITH
100 MAIN ST DP TOWN SM1THVILLE
Window Shades made nd hung to order Tel-
ephone ABO
The above Is pretty good circular matter
and would make a fairly good advertise-
ment in a newspaper I would criticise
the printing of tho word notice It
means absolutely nothing and the printing
of it is simply a waste of space It has the
effect of detracting from the body of the
advertisement which contains its meat and
life Another criticism the matter is too
eencral it does not strike a direct blow at
the reader there is nothing in it to suggest
that the readers house out to be papered
it does not stir him up I rewrite the cir-
cular for a newspaper advertisement
attempting to make it breezy to correspond
with the general feeling at this season of
year
GOING
TO PAPER
THIS SPRING
Our expert sales-
man will call look
over your house
get y o u r ideas
give you his tell
you bottom cost
invite you to visit
our display parlors
all for nothing you
neednt buy any
thing well
suggest it
John G Smith
100 Main Street
not
The following sample is taken from a re-
moval announcement
REMOVAL
J J SMITH
HAS REMOVED HIS
Fish Business
to 100 Main Street
where he will keep the best fish in
the market Choice Goods and
Low Prices Give us a call
The only value a removal circular or ad-
vertisement can have is as a means of in-
formation to interested parties informing
them that a changs of business base has been
made The outside public caro absolutely
nothing about it unless the removal is a
guarantee of better service and better
goods The word removal seldom at-
tracts any attention and tho conventional
removal advertisement or circular is worth
comparatively little The enterprising
merchant who finds a move necessary
should use it as a legitimato excuse for in-
creased advertising not advertising the re-
moval as a specialty in itself but advertis-
ing the point that increased business de-
mands better quarters and at the same
time announcing certain leaders and other
information which will assist in bringing
new people to tho new store who have
never called at the old one I would criti
cise the lino reading where ha will keep
the best fish in tho market It is as
threadbare as the statement of choice gro-
ceries and fine teas Every grocer is sup-
posed to keep choice groceries and fine teas
or to say that he does if he doesent There is
absolutely no necessity of asking people
to give us a call
The advertiser should never beg trade
he should suggest it he should present be-
fore the public something which the people
want or something which ho can make
them want not beg them to come into his
store
I rewrite this circular advertisement in
riafesAsaag sxgaggj
which I have tried to illustrate spring
breeziness
Advertising space is bought and sold like
any other merchandise An advertisement
may be truthful and it may be the oppo-
site
More Room
For Fish
I vas at 42 Jones Street
Im there no longer more
room was needed I took
more room
Do You
Eat Fish
I have everything from
clams to bass prices right
I Sell
As Low
As I Can
J J Smith
100 Main Street
People do not place implicit confidence in
aevertising statements but for all that the
permanent character of tho paper has the
power to transfer its weight to the goods
advertised in it
The majority of peoplo aro regular read-
ers of regular papers The arrangement of
tho nets and advertising columns become
fixed factors in their minds they depend
upon their favorite paper and unconsciously
or not learn to rely upon the advertisements
in it
The newspaper becomes a bureau of in-
formation not only for the news of the
day but for that which tells what is for
sale and what to buy
An advertisement in a regular paper has
habitation it is a part of the papers life
it is so recognized by the reader there is
identity and reliability about it of fixed
quality
The circular has no character beyond its
individual appearance It is a sort of
Wisp whose natural fate is the
gutter
Circulars and hand bills unless sent out
when asked for are not considered re-
spectable method of advertising Perhaps
that statement is rather strong Let me
modify it by saying that every man who
circulates circulars may not bo a shyster
but that every shyster circulates circulars
The mail circular unless sent for is but
a step in advance of the
A bungling poorly worded advertisement
in a good paper may be a poor investment
but it is infinitely better than the most ar-
tistically gotten up circular of promiscuous
circulation
The newspaper is the natural medium of
advertising and the only ono which is ab-
solutely necessary to business publicity
Aided by comprehensive catalogues well
written circulars first class goods and live
salesmen is worth double its individual
valuo
TURKISH BATHS
Verdant Texas Royally Enter-
tained in Gotham
A HOT AND COLD MIXTURE
Our Texas Girl and Jim ISexar Kxpatlate
Upon the Iteatitnde of a Fashion-
able Turkish nath Different
Views on the Snbject
Special Correspondence of the Gazette
New Yoke May 13 Jim Bexars still in
town
He says he just despises to go back to
Texas and leave the whole of New York for
me to have fun out of
Ho and I were standing at tho bow of an
East river ferry boat the other day when I
suddenly inquired
Jim have you taken a Turkish bath
yet
Yes have you
Oh yes of course But how did you
liko it and how did they like you
Well lets hear your yarn first then Ill
see about tolling mine
I dont mind at all I replied I like
it immensely It camo about this way
They think me so wild and western at the
house so divertiogly bronco and unbroke
you know that they like to take me around
and try things on me My fresh unbiased
comments my capacity to be tickled or
moved or angry are a perennial joy to
them
So Mrs Cameo said wo would go to a
Turkish bath and she would willingly pay
tho entire expenses of the entertainment
including all possible breakages damaging
or defacing of attendants etc I was in
mortal terror but I am enough of a woman
still to always take anything in the world
that some ono else will pay for no matter
how painful or deleterious so we went I
Ierving the following explanation stuck up
on my door addressed to a party who had
said she might come arourd to convey mo
out to a conversazzyown a meeting of
ocultists fJOf know those peoplo who try
to poss the lmpossioie ana scrute the in-
scrutable a sort of gloomy and depressing
psychial research show which makes you
dizzy and confused and discouraged fcr a
week afterward
Im off for a Turkisk bath O Lord
Im shaking right now in my shoes I
Some demon impelled me to say I would g
And now its too late to refuse
I shall catch It as bad as I would at your show
So my absence I trust youll excuse
I know that before I am through with it frleid
Vly hair will run cold myblood stand on end
Tlie skies roll together east west north and
south
And my right hand will cleave to the roof of iy
mouth 1
I made up my mind to one thing Mrs
Cameo should get very small returns from
her investment If there was no entertain-
ment provided by any one but me the
wholo affair should bo as decorously solemn
not to say dismal as the meeting of the
soul hunters and spiritual vivisectiouists
across town
Theyimght blow me about in winds
roast mo iu sulphur wash me in steepdown
gulfs of liquid fire or plunge me in seas
of boreal frigidness no expression of sur-
prise or exclamation of agony should es-
cape me
So when after undressing each in his
incommunicative cell and draping our
respective sheets around us we stepped
into tho hot room where a slithering siz-
zling simoon of the Sahara swooped down on
us sending me back limply into my com-
panions arms I jerked myself together
and to her sniggering whats tlie matter
rejoined stiffly that Id like to have her
keep off the tail of my sheet
There was a row of wooden chairs along
the sides of the narrow room and upon
two of them we were placed all trussed
up and leftto cook The attendant brought
us from time to time ice water in glasses
so hot they scorched our lips If I had
been disposed to skulk or dodge fate I
could have refused this water and escaped
all further suffering and apprehension by a
simple and rapid process of evaporation or
rather liquefleation But I gravely drank
every drot the nersDiration ran off the
THE GAZETTE JT WORTH TEXAS SUNDAY MAY 17
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end of my nose in a seething torrent It
ran off Mrs Cameos nose too Sho
asked abruptly Its awfully hot in Texas
isnt it
O no said I I never experienced heat
anywhere
Here youve had enough well go now
she said presently
If you want to go well go I replied
but I wouldnt hurry Its expensive you
know take a good deal of time and fussing
and we ought to put it through in good
shape
rihe turned her super heated coun-
tenance upon my boiled lobster visago ono
moment then rang the bell and our at-
tendants conducted us to our separate rub-
bing rooms As we trailed out ono door a
new party filed in at another It was headed
by a very fleshy foreign lady She was
clad in the conventional sheet which more
expressed than hid her FalstaBian propor-
tions and when the blighting breath of
that room smoto upon her she exclaimed
wildly Ah my Jod I cannot bear it mo
and clutching at the empty air fell back
heavily upon tho attendants who went
down onto the bare floor And we went
snickering out leaving them picking them-
selves up and prying up the gasping fleshy
foreism lady
We were rubbed and thumped and
scoured and sprayed oil with a hose then
showered I heard one littlo o w ooh from
Mrs Cameoa room when the cooler water
of the spray struck her and a sharp
kee eee as she passed under the shower
and felt what joy it is to see the engineer
thus hoist by his own petard
Then when all theso processes so in-
imical to personal dignity and so beneficial
to the cuticle were completed we were
again invested with our sheets and went
back to our little dressing rooms to be pat-
ted and soothed laved in delicate scents
and soft unguents then tucked up and left
to drowsy bliss I was just cutting loose
from these shores to drift out upon the
quiet unknown when an attendant pulled
aside the curtain across from mine and
touched the occupant gently A white arm
went drowsily up a pair of big black eyes
looked out reproachfully O no Mary not
yet sho said
I waked up presently in a state of per-
fect beatitude What mado me so light
and free I wondered I felt without mean-
ing to be sacrilegious as though I had shed
all my sins and slipped my dead weights of
doubt uncertainty and bitter experience
I forgave my lriends and loved my enemies
I rose up and clothed myself still in this
lofty frame of mind gave my soft handed
attendant all the small change I had with a
gentlemanly air which is my latest acquire-
ment wondering inwardly that a beneficent
ministering spirit should accept earthly
dross tho street door opened and closed
upon us and I was with the world that
mocks airain
said Jim That sounds
mighty pretty you always was a good
deal on the pretty Goes sort of like a book
3 girl sent me from St Louis astral bodies
soul communion and such stuff
Now mine aint like that No by
George Its more like au off and ou scrap-
ping match or a cow town after the round-
ups Id been told a lot about tho thing
and thought Id go and try one and I made
up my mind if there was any gouging or
hammering or rough handling done Id
bo there
They took mo into that ante room of
perdition and told me to sit down on ono of
those wooden chairs You dont say how
you found it but great Scott mine was red
hot I jumped up and yelled and tho fel-
low grinned like a prairie dog That made
me mad and 1 told him I didnt come there
for any monkey business He looked scared
and went and got a big woolly sheet and
put it over the chair I sat there and
thought what cool business holding sheep
in boutli Arizona m July used to be hen
1 couldnt stand it any longer I ordered the
fellow to take me out so wc went into a
big room with a lot of arroyos ehuck full
of water running across it and fellows
splashing around in em for all the world
liko sheep dipping I thought they would
bo cool so in I iumped frst one wo came
to It was boiling boilinglal climbed out
mad as tire i hd a miiiu a pitch the lcl
low in but lie wasut more than half as big
as me and I thought twouldnt be square
Do you want to kill me I said Im
parboiled now Wheres something cool
lie said to go on down them arroyos or
dipping vats that they kept getting cooler
and the last ono was perfectly cold I
started down for the last one the fellow
trotting along after me saying Id better
come to it gradual and just then I hoard
a man roar out laughing like I havent
heard since I left Texas
Whats that says I
tailing a cold spray or shower or
needle bath says the fellow
Well I want ono right now says I
The fellow tried to get me to take a cool
plunge but Id made up my mind so he
says Which will you have shower spray
or needle
Whats he taking Needle and just
then the chap come out fairly whooping
looking tickled as a fellowthats just broke
tltn hfinlr
So I went in and told my man to turn
her loose
Ill make it warm at first and cool
down gradual says he
You wont do nothing of the kind
says I Im blessed if I havent had
enough he eat You just turn her looseas
cold as sho gets I reckon I havnt rode
the range in sleety northers since I was a
kid to be scared by a shower bath There
wasnt anything to see I didnt even
know where she was That fellow just
touched some sort of hair trigger some-
where and ten million sparks of fire and
ice hit me all at once I doubled up and
jumped wild I was locoed I hit some-
thing with tlie top of my head and when
the thing stopped there stood the fellow
spitting out teeth and swearing hed make
me pay for em I told him I was more
than willing to Id get him two or three
changes of teeth first class ones if I lived
to get out I was thankful I hit him for if
I hadnt ho would have grinned then Id
have broke his neck sure and had to leave
the country in nothing but that sheet
Well he went away and another fellow
came and laid me on a shelf and com-
menced to curry me He was very civil
about it and I got along all right till he
opened up on the soles of my feet Of
course I kicked liko a wild mustang any-
body would He went over against the wall
and said Id broke his nose
Well what did you tickle my feet for
says I A man isnt responsible for what
he does when his feets tickled
Ho said hed call in the proprietor but
I told him no I wouldnt and he didnt I
was getting fyed and I was afraid if I in-
jured any more stock and had to pay for it
I wouldnt have money enough to get back
to tho hotel So I said wed cut the rest
and wo did I dressed rnysclf the fellows
were all afraid Id hook or kick I guess
paid my bill divided what had all but a
couple of dollars between the fellow with
the broken nose and tho one minus four
front teeth and came away I didnt no-
tice any of those happy feelings like you
had and I didnt think of any poetry but
folks are different you know
ALice MacGowax
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Twenty yeara ago the energetic Professor
Schwarz was conducting a musical society
in a New Jersey city They were studying
Mendelssohns Elijah and had reached
the chorus Hear us Baal hear mighty
God
The mens voices were booming out
sonorously when the conductor cried oat
No No da dreadful vowel Dont say
soften a leetle give de more mu-
sical sound Bal
Whereupon the chorus took up the strain
again Hear us Bawl hear us Bawl but
they quickly realized the peculiar fitness of
the sentiment and broke down in laugh
ter to the great amazement of the little
German who never saxr the joke bnt who
reluctantly consented to
ciation Youths Com
SubscriiaBpRffTVeeklv Ga7ett
HArr 6
They Didnt Co
A Tenne3seean said ho guessed hed go
down to tho day po An acquaintance ob-
served that he guessed hed go down to
the depot at the same time Neither of
them went however When they got
through fighting over it they were in the
hands of the doctors and trains wero an
hour late Detroit Free Press
MYSTIC MISCELLANY
NEWS FROM SECRET SOCIETY
STRONGHOLDS
Career of the Iat John T Mitliurn Su
premo Protector or tlie Unlcht and
Ladies of Honor Other Orders
Captain John T Milbnrn who recently
died in Louisville Ky was supreme pro-
tector of the Knights and Ladies of Honor
Bro Milburn was born at Lebanon Ky
Oct 14 1S39 and lived there until the be-
ginning of the war when he enlisted
After the struggle was ended ho took up
his residence in Louisvilia and practiced
law
In Louisville he was not long in making
his mark He was a different times elect
ed to the school
board to tlie gen-
eral council and to
the legislature
the latter in 1SS2
Almost from the
inception of thoso
two great benevo
1 e n t orders the
Kuiyhts of Honor
and the Knights
and Ladies of
Honor he was
identified with
them in various
JOIIN T littCDlW capacities rising
to tho second highest position in one and
tbo highest in the other which he held at
the time of his death his term the second
expiring Sept 1 1S91 He was also a Ma-
son holding his membership in Lebanon
being a life member of the lodge there
During tho troubles in the Knights of
Honor in connection with the action of the
then supreme treasurer ho stood by tho
order and against Treasurer Breckinridge
He was elected supremo vice dictator iu
1SS7 and filled the office with credit In
the sister order the Knights and Ladies of
Honor he was elected supreme protector
in 1SS7 and again in lSbD His disagree-
ment with Jewel lodga as to the proper
method of disposing of the funds collected
and placed in his hands for tho relief of
sufferers by tho cyclone is probably well
remembered as it was of comparatively re-
cent date This affair served to illustrate
tho strength of his character and the ten-
acity with which he clung to any point
when he had once made up his mind that
he was right Ho had been a prominent
figure in the affairs of this order ever since
his connection with it and its members
point to the fact that he more than doubled
its membership during his two terms as
supreme protector
KNIGHTS OFTHETENTED MACCABEES
Various Natos of Interest to All Membors
of tile Order
The certificate fees will hereafter bo one
dollar but the percapita tav has been dono
away with for all but honorary members
Engineers or firemen on any railroad
train conductors or brakemen on railroad
freight trains or switchmen or yardmen in
the employ of railroads orpersons lgaged
in iron or copper mining can now be ad-
mitted into the K O T M by paying in
addition to the regular graded assessment
twenty five cents on each 1000 life benefits
carried
The order now stretches from ocean to
ocean There are tents in Washington and
Connecticut Minnesota is the most north-
ern point where Maccabees now flourish
and Tennc see the most southern
The tables show that the duration of
membership in the order of endowment
members deceased since the reorganization
of the supreme tent has been only one
year eleven montns and fifteen days their
average age thirty eight years three months
and seven days and the average amount
paid by each member into the endowment
fund was 2585 The total amount paid in
by deceased members rs 640310 and their
beneficiaries have drawn out 5470723
During the two years ending Dec 31
1800 305300 was received and paid out by
the supreme tent for death and disability
claims and 5S03G49 for management ex-
penses
There is no better field for organizers
than the sonth
There have been since 1SS3 thirteen total
and permanent disability claims allowed
and the amount so far paid on such claims
is 5000
The annual increase for the biennial term
was within a fraction of 35 per cent and
the total average age of the membership is
thirty three years eight months and twen-
ty days The largest percentage of increase
in states having upward of 500 members
in 1SSS has been made by Indiana The
province of Ontario comes next Ohio come3
third New York fourth with Pennsyl-
vania fifth
RED MEN
A Philadelphia Tribes Now Quarters The
Highest Adoption Iee
Idaho tribe No 73 of Philadelphia is
comfortably quartered in a neat and com-
modious wigwam at 233 Pine street The
tribe met in the old wigwam Second and
German streets for twenty three great
suns
Powhatan tribe No 57 of Baltimore
charges an adoption fee of 100 fathoms
This is the highest adoption fee charged by
any tribe in the United States
It is claimed that Patcrson and Camden
N J have more Red Men to their popula-
tion than any other two cities in the United
States
Wyoming Valley council No 0 D of P
of Wilkesbarre Pa has an invested fund
of nearly a thousand fathoms
A petition for a council of the degree of
Pocahontas to be located at Cammack
Ind has been received by the proper great
chiefs
The two tribes in Columbus Ga are
considering tho advisability o building a
wigwam
Order of the World
A new lodge has just been instituted in
Philadelphia
The order has now a membership in nine-
teen states and over fifty lodges have been
instituted
The lodge in New York composed wholly
of hospital nurses promises to be one of the
largest in the order
Over 300 medical examiners have been
commissioned
A supreme deputy is now at work in
Providence and the Indications are that
the charter list will be filled and the lodge
instituted before long
As very many members receive their in
comes on or about the first of the month
the requests to have the assessments i
Class 3 payable at that time have
general In compliance they are now livied
on the first instead of the middle of the
moDto
dtkiU hs SKSK
MASONIC
Tb First Home TTa Irnilt in Eat0t
Other Item
To the Masons of Kentucky blos v
honor of establishiagthe firai home for
care of their widows and orphan j
located in LouisTille The builjjg 4
handsome brick and stons edifice co- -
24000 square feet of ground It he 1
from 200 to 250 beneficiaries In arii
to the main building there Is a
office From this office The Masonic
of the Grand Lodge The work - a
bythebovsofthniustitution Ther
shop or factory which not cin f
theshoes for the inmates bat i o -
in
i
sale a chair factory a tt i k
ment for girls and vs gc I a
could be found anywhere Tii
home that has beta complc iv
and provided with the fnciliti
iugtho boys and girls for Se
ment The cost of maintAiiar
isabontSlOO per annum fore
There is much excitement
over the affairs of the Norhu
fconic Ai 1 association the hem
whicuare at Chicago Tu
has in force in Canada over
surance among the Masons
doing purely a Masonic bj
ada but it has come to t e K
the Dominion gowrnnient thu
tion has been accepting a i v
risks in thu United States I
to cease business in Cmaiia
statutory deposit at Ottuvv i
would not do so i has Ih i r
ordered to withdraw lrora i
The New Jersey Masons are r
forts to raise 15000 with i
pose to erect a new home t
uiifortunato member1 of fie
So far the committee has ni
The death of Bro Wiliam
retary of the United taes -tails
an act of fraternity v
tended toward tha craft in 1
will be remembered that 0i
day the beautiful trmpe in t
destroyed by fire entnilins i
besides many invaluable r
were destroyed The iit i
Masous begm to look aroui i
A message was seat to r i
and in the afternoon a r
the government arnv 1
handed over the United v
to the Masons for their iNUu
is rebuilt
Bro John Oscar Diikrc i
was subjected to an out a
nioval of cancer which ler
llesh uncovered An a it u
graft tlie skin of a go t ujii o
surface but it ras uiisu c
his brother Mmm t
selves for the surgeons km t
were used from the bodies
and the operation pron ivs t r
complete cure of Bro DiCKtr a
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Tho Kansas City Masonc tp e will
cost in round numbers iO R 3 v rci
company has taken charge be cattr
prise and the rentals will p y pjyi
good percentage on the iavermi i
KNIGHTS OF HONOR
Something About Past Sttprem IicU4i
It II Cochran Items
In an articio on Wheeling W a Frssk
Leslies Newspaper publishes a cut dI
Supreme Dictator K H Cociirin and sjys
No gentleman stands higher in the eu
mation of his fcllowmen than Jude i j
ran and if proof of the foregnng a r
tion is required call upon the uuX
Knights of Honor throughout tae counrj
Grand Dictator Conant of
is nt present putting in live niguts a
week for the gootl of the order He is tra
vcling from one end of tho state to tha
other accompanied by Grand llfpirtr
Pratt addressing public gatherings sad
stimulating tired lodges to renewed
energy
The reports of the several officers how
the order to be in a prosperous cocqiUoj
iu tho District of Columbia taucs liv
lodges with a membership of nearly 5001a
the District of Columbia aid 3 0 lodges
with a membership of over 1Z5C0i in the
United States
Deputy Snprenio Dictatirs J PutoU
Baker of New Jersey iu the northTKt
and J J Fultz of Ohio iu Canada ar
doing good work Their scletion by Su-
preme Dictator Savage was a good move
For live weeks ending Jan 17 there wwa
1033 applications filed with the npreo
reporter Texas had 144 New York
Mississippi 82 Illinois 55 Louiriana id
Tennessee each 40 Pennsylvania 4 in
diana 44 Kentucky 42 Alabama4I Mas-
sachusetts and South Carolina ia h A
Canada sends in 39
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAN
The Bichest Iodso in Indiana- A Soeiii
leature Xotes
The statement has been going the rcundi
of tho various Pythian papers tbit Creceai
lodge No 33 of New Gstlu ws the
wealthiest lodge in the state c Icuiaai
This u a mistake The w altiuct jode
in the state is Indianapolis lodge Vj to
The report of the term ending Dec 31 1359
shows total resources of Intfunapolu
lodge No 50 to bo 04CSr3 total re-
sources of Crescens lodge No X to
737413 At the above dte No Xiud
membership of ISO and No Ij a meniixr
ship of 437
The Knights of Pythias of Sioui Falls
S D have a lodge club room or enterum
ment hall where all members my spew
a pleasant evening in a quiet and woifort
able way Daily papers magazines a
books from the best author aro in their
reading room Entertainments are oc
rionally given with much credit and profit
to the enterprising knights
There are thirty three Knights of Prthy
lodges in New Orleans
The new Knighte of Pythias castle t
Clarksville Tenn will be a handgun
three story building ona of the finest
the city and a credit to the order
There is talt of organizing asfttonot
the Endowment rank at Sioux Fails a-
A O U W
Somci Particulars of Fraternal Journal-
ism Note
There are iwenty five papers now b1
published solely in the interests of ue
A O U W an average of one for esrt
jurisdiction though a few have noae1
yet others have two papers All of t
are generally well conducted and J04
proportion to tho support these joarsad
receive do their respective juriscittje
flourish and grow
The membership Jan 1 1SSS was 19
Jan 1 1889 was 20705 Jan 1 12
21533 The growth of Missouri thereto
was 827 in 1688 923 In 18S and 1579 in U
Members in good standing Dec 1 lSM
240522
Indiana has now about 3000 numbers-
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