Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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f A SQUAW DANCE. .
[ A •Picturesque Feature of the Klondike’®
j Social Life:
| A squaw dance nyust be seen to be
j appreciated'. I wish it were possible
Herald
“Lend
a Hand!
.Proprietor
dhmano.
Eaitor
for me to describe it with its details
and variations. ! I have seen it more
than once at' Bam' McDUI’s saloon,,
away up in the frozen Klondike'coun-,
try, and'can tell what L wrote in my
journal at the time:
The dance proper did not begin un- •
■ til ten o'clock, as that is sunset hour
1 now. Gf - course/ a' number ' of* the
boys arrived, much earlier and com-
jnenced to spend their!money-.at the
‘bar, pretty freely for heutch;the only .
strong drink to be had .'here. .If tastes
i very''much like poor whiskv; never-
Jthcless,' it costs 50 cents_ per glass,
which -is the established pr^ce -for
Idrinks in this country. It take's quite
. a quantity to fill one up, so that by the
tirne the ordinary knock about “sour
dough” miner .has an edge on he is
'financially “broke.” _ Of course, his
spirits are light and money, matters
don’t trouble him very much. .
It" is now about sunset/and as the
•last beams of light fade away 15 or
20 squaws shuffle into the room and
take their places, on a rough bench
along the wall. There is no grace or
beauty among them, but they are an
interesting and picturesque group.
They earn all go through the quad-
rilles, and-a few can waltz very well.
Their arrival is ,the signal .‘for the
| fun of the evening to start, and the
! musicians, who are all at last in tune,
; strike up a lively air. The boys rush
' over to squaw corner, engage one for,
>the dance and then take their‘posi-
I lions on :l;e floor, the Indian maidens
j not joining them until the music is
well under way. The prompter takes
bis position, and’the'dance now be-
gins in earnest. It is lively from the
• start, and soon the boys pull off their
coats- and give them into the keeping
j of friends. . ,
All around the room, on stools and
• benches and tables, the crowd stand
i-and applaud during the entire'even-
ing, except when they get down for a
drink.*
I The more noise the .happier is
1 everyone.
“Balance corners and swing your
____ _____!?> ___. _ .1 ____' , ft 1
is the cry of women whose housework is
beyond their physical' powers. Such
women need to know that all cleaning is
made easy by
A Way From Cotton
.« •
Slavery,
An apt old
ad a go de-
clares that
woman’s
work is never
done. ■ This
is true of the
housewife ’ s
manifold du-
ties and ap-
proximately
true of the
thousan da
who'work all
day in factor-
ies and-stores
and half the
night in
making and
me a a in g
Washing Powder :
It’s as good as an extra pair of hands in
the household. It saves time and worry.
Largest package—greatest economy.
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY,
Chicago. St. Louis. * New York.
Roftton. ' Philadelphia.
their own
clothes or sewing for others to patch oot a
.meagre income. “Women who are too
much on tli^ir feet, or who are unable to
stand the strain of over-work and worry,
are peculiarly susceptible to the weak-
nesses and irregularities that are the bane
of womankind.. The symptoms of such
derangements arfe insufficient or excessive
menstruatiqn, headache:,, backache, neu-
ralgia, leucOrrhcea, displacements and ex-
treme nervousness amounting in many
cases to hysteria. The use of morphine is
dangerous and examinations by male phy-
sicians are painful and unpleasant.
Bradfieid’s Female Regulator, the
standard remedy, for a quarter of a Cen-
tury, will speedily and permanently cor-
rect the worst disorders of women.. Brad-
field’s Regulator is sold by druggists at
one dollar a bottle. . Interesting and valu-
able hooks for women mailed free on
application.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga.
DEALER IN
A Suicide at Witting
Suppli
ti undertaker
MrS. Gustavo Best ‘Cuts Her Own
Throat-With a Razor.
* No Cause Assigned.
BT better than ever
i ‘ • '
The old reliable
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased ppdirtlon of the ear,
There is ohly one wsy to care deatness,
and that is by constitutional, remedies.
Dealness is caused by an. inflamed' cor-
Jiitlon of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. Whet# this tube is in-
flamed you baye a running sound or Im-
perfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed, Deafness is the result, an^ unless
the inflammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal* condi-
tion, bearing will be destroyed forever:
nine cases out of ten are caused by
C&tartb; which is noting but an inflam-
ed condition of thenmeous surfaces.
We will give one Hundred Dollars for
any cas^ of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars: free.
F. J. CHENEY A CO,, Toledo, O-
Sold by. Druggists, 75c.
Hail’s Family Pills are the best.
LINDENBERG HOTFI
' Witting, Texas, January 20,
—We are very sorry to re-
port the untimely - ’death, of Mrs.
Gustave Best, who committed sui-
cide yesterday evening about .8
o’clock, by Cutting her throat with
her husband's razor/
Malletaville Texi
Pubiivj^u l * re
THIS IS THE
There is no
cause known for the rash act.
Mr. and Mrs. Best were married
only three years ago.aud were do-
ing well; liyed peascably and have
money on interest. Per mind
|^*The table always-in .style and up to the^ markets. 'Beds clean
Large free sample ropms, free bus to and from all trains. -
\ "Hiawatha is .tripping it,fine to-
| night, Bill!” someone yells from the
top of a table.
Then comes ■ “Allen^md left,”
j “Grand right and left,” and finally
“Partners to the bar.” Of dourse, the
last call is,never omitted, and conse-
quently'the bar receipts, in gold dust
and nuggets, are enormoift.
As the night grows
older the jags j
\ get stronger, and some :one ' wants j'
some one else to sing a sting, arfd 'some}
one who wants to sing is not wanted j
by the crowd. After the fight, the-j
general favorite condescends to sing:1
“Just To Be a Child Once Mpre,” or j
“There’s a Hot Time in fhetOJd Town I
To-Night.” " n V *. |
j The boys take a .great interest in j
the musicians and keep them well,
supplied'with hcutch and Cigars. In
fact, the'amount of heutch imbibed}
by .the orchestra has so strange an cf- j
feet on the music that- by three in the !
morning you hardly know whether,
! they are trying to play “Hail Colum-1
i bia”.or “God Save th-e.Queen.” And
no one cares.—NVY. Herald.,
>.§*• ' ^ V *
•V Coi*f>Fp^iTAM “ "JP
•^■HE delights of an evening syefit* around a wet!-lighted
I ing facie are 'net Ira if understood. Ac ilintrated mt
I with its weaith of illustrations, its Tories of
yutBemselves away1 from cotton,
s However, the Cherokee farmers
are conservative and are not sbak-
5- ID? off one kind of slavery for an
otfier. For examplerthey afe not
dboiojer led off by high-paying crops
from homely economics. • Hiveh ■
adventticr
^ love, its descriptions of travel which carry you -io the twjj
ends of the earth, and its instructive articles for young.and.olcF^I
are the first requisites tor your 6wn enjoyment and the entertaintt
and proper education of your children.
To secure for you the best and most interesting of the great fl
trated maga^nes at the lowest possible price has been the aim Of
.editor of this journal. That we have succeeded we leave ourr^aj
to judge. A special contract recently-red into with The. Cos
politan, which seeks iohcConieTctj « /--i vn in this neighborhood,
PINEAPPLE. CULTURE
Yields a Fine Fiber as Well as a Profit--,
abl* Fruit.
Pineapple culture is already a
flourishing industry in the sisal hemp |
region. A pyn-apple plant matures;
but one apple in a season, and after ,
the harvest of fruit the old leaves are )
of no further use to the plant, and !
may be removed. Theleaves'h'nvo the ;
same structural system as the1 agaves ;
—that is, they are composed of a cel-,
In this way you secure your own home paper and an iflustm
magazine at a price that is orJv Gv-t a fpinth of what some of l
illustrated magazines sell for. For rh -u \tv.rs 1 he Cosmopoi^jufj
undisputed!v claimed that ,t reached tne ho ce-t clientele possessed
any periodical, daily., weekly or the wo:Id. It wi
Cosmopolitan which sent- Julian :! " t on > to India to let the wo
know the real horrors oi famine and plague. It was The Cosnpp
kan which.established at its erwn; cost a great Free Correspoode
University whjcb now has over ?.0,,GOO students on its rolls.
The Cosmopolitan which offered u.rr.ze of for the best hdf
less carriage snd prizes tor best plans ,ior public baths, and best
It was The
cles of food that we can raise ft fevv (iays we will be able to
profitably in our own State. Gal-1 “Hello Shiner! ’
j veston is now exporting quito !
iJargely these California products Our new sheriff, B. G. Ben
! to Columbia, Nicaragua and all vvas m our little town one day
!of the West India Islands. In! w«ek, Serving road revjw-
(view of the above facts the Prog- pors.
ress says let us turn over a new •—v
leaf by diversifying and propag^-I Constable W. F. 'Miller,
ting ahy and ^all industries that: Hnlletsville,-passed through
can be made profitable to our own j to-day looking for evil doere
people. It is folly to ini>e low , don t like to see him too oftci
mint of sewer and pipe systems tor cities,
which-set the presidents of great schools and universities
discussing the defects of existing educational systems. I
Cosmopolitan whose enterprise is always in the lead in adya
wood’s civilization. _______-_ ■■■ ■ .n.m ■>
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Mair, W. A. Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1899, newspaper, February 2, 1899; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth995485/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.