Evening Messenger from Marshall, Texas • 6

TIH3 UV2WXY XXTSSXaiTrES, UUrHALL. TUX AO. Rpini i nppn ui my uuup, WORK OF FLAMES. Some of the Pecufiar Poses In and Out of tfie Tinning Mill trojeJ. FMner, July 16.

Joseph Stock, farmer, living about four mile from -here." lost his residence, all its contents, by fire. The family barely escaped with their lives. The fire started la the kitchen, and when dis-covered-was beyond controL Loss otS house and contents about 11200, no in JL surance. "Colmesneil, Tcx July Jiroke out Immediately over the boilers in the Sam Allen Lumber, company's planing mill at Asia about o'clock yesterday morning and destroyed the buildinr and contents. It was a new JU' 1 structure, taking the place of the one burned there about three months ago, and was finished only a few day ago.

'EstlmatetHoss about fSOOO. -The mill are to be rebuilt soon. Commerce Flr. Commerce, July 16. At an early hour yesterday morning.

Harris Bird's- blacksmith shop, Purcell's barbershop and Bedford eery store were burned. No damage to other buildings. Origin of fir unknown. I-r( Ranch 8oliL Fort Tx, Jujy. 16.

Mr. Geo. B. Loving repotta one of the largest cattle and ranch sales that has been made in Texas for some The parties to the deal are E. C.

Sugg snd brother of Sugden, I. and J. B. Wilson of Dallas. The former parties purchased of J.

B. Wilson the 7 ranch and the cattle, located In Tom Green, Irion and' Sterjlng counties. The rand includes 160,000 acres, 70,000 of which are pateted and-leied. There-are 10,000 attle Jocludd In the deal. The consideration, Mr.

Loving states, is in the neighborhood of This land adjoins the ranch of Bugg A purchased of Comer Bros, seme time since, and the two deals will segregate an investment ol about 1600,000. Mr. Loving states that this Is the best herd of cattle in western Texas. He said that. Mr.

Wilson had been breeding It up for some; years. Mr. Wilson tought back 1000 top-spayed rows and heifers at $32.50 per head. Kw Conrthou. Catesvllle, July 18.

Friday evening was 'a gala time for the people of Oatesvllle and Coryell county. About o'clock the carpenters marched out and locked their tools. Word was passed around "the courthouse Is fin-, tshed." The doors were Tnfown open and Inspect the building. At 8 o'clock the electric lights wera turned on and the building was lighted from basement to dome.The orchestra rendered its best music and the crowd multiplied into thousands, every hallway and floor being literally packed. Every part of the county was represented and many were here from Waco and other out county towns.

Foaod Dead. Fort Worth, July 11 The new. reached here that between eedaae and Sublett'a storehouse, fourteen miles south, yesterday John ChrlaUier, aged about 70,, years, wis found' dead. There' were do bruises or wound of any kind on his person, and his death is a mystery. When dU.

covered. In a thicket near "a publis road, his body was badly swollen and was covered with thousands of flies. He had resided in Tarrant county for about thirty years. His horse was tied about 100 yards from where his remains were seen. He was a farmer, in mdium circumstances, and the information received here is that lnrfhe iou.e with him resided either his family, his wife, it Is reported, having died seme time ago.

Terrell. July 16. Pete Gibson, of this place, has received a large Stalk tobacco raised at or near Big Sandy, snd the former residents of Kentucky i ersTlr fro tics need it to be tobacco of the L'sheet grade, Trt4 Ep. KcKlnney, July 16. The prts-cners la JaTTnlade an attrmot ta-w rupe Thursday night When discovcj-ed thry had the iron grating- at the rear tf tie 'Jill fcerit and twisted out Of f' The damages were repaired Pan a railroad man, had -1 cut off at Bering's mill, solrMe4 lit Aijlom.

Tw-n-U, July 16 J. II. 'py the Forney precinct. held a from Collin county, a verdict to the effect. at.H atb byimab" 'r- th north Texas hospiti.1 Baccus Ked a tyin tround his throat i the other criPS w.

i i usually follows that the swimmer Is HOW GIRLS HAY. LEARN snd they all ought to learn. I have similar devioes upon which timid no-never known a woman to become a vices frequently long to pin their safe-real expert swimmer unless she began ty. Instead of on their own strength. In childhood." Last year the pneumatic corset waa All swimming teachers discourage added to these contrivances.

When the use of cork bells, air collars and anything of that sort is employed it Self-Reliance the First Requisitein Swimming Ad-" 7- vicrFronTFfBach6r 1 lUs Really Easier to Float Than tdSink.lt's a Mis- take, to Use Cork Jacketsr Collars TO BRAVETHE SURF (about It in the right way: "(2) The Importance of deliberation In movements undertaken in the water. The slow, easy way in which the I'xpert movesT Gnteason why It Is hard for women to learn (o swim is that thf re usually nervous, and the minute they- get in the water they -beinto sputter snd struggle and do ill the' Mhinga they-ought 4o kavai Then they lose their breath, swallow salt water and ars seized with panic, The slow stroke enables them to take long, deep breaths and fill their lungs with air. which is better than a life preserver to-keep them afloat. When the bather is In water where the waves come In In regular succession, she must learn to take breath between them. But If I don't keep moving I will Is an objection that-cearly-all-my pu-j plls make when I urge them to be quiet.

In answer to that I simply take them into the water until it comes up to the breast and get them to lie on the water with meir arms stmrnea out beyond their head, but under the water, their feet close together, and let them Jie there until they realize that there is really no danger of their sinking. This gives self-confidence, which is so essential for the swimmer. "(3) The proper position in swimming. The body should be at a nat ural Incline, the feet not forced to the surface, the back should be hollowed and the head thrown back upon the shouldrs so ss to bring the weight up- onthe air-Blled Iuurs and- keep the 1 rare well out of the water. "(O The stroke.

That ia easy to learn when one has acquired self-reliance not until then. Aa soon as I get A.g.!rLlo deling ihat.iho. water not her mortal enemy, and that she can easily control the situation, I show Mr bow to place her hands in front of the together and polntlcg forward, and the palms slightly conclsve, and then to force her arms forward, always keep- mi mem coir water, -ana finally I 7 sweeping the outstretched arms to the sides and drawing them up to the hips. it is easy to teach children to iiizn. Unable to get on without it afterward.

Women seldom have the endurance, I even if they have courage, to make long-distance swimming records, They i tell of a New York girl, however, ia 'the Buzzard's Bay legion, who swam three miles, not once several times, and a Boston girl covered a two and a half mue courSeor 'ufitisuaT fifflieutty that several men had attempted and failed to accomplish. The Boston girl chose night for her undertaking in order to avoid publicity, a boat following her to pick her ut if she gare out, bat her friends were so elated onr her success tbanhs feat became generally known, and the girl received an offer of a large sum of money from a museum if she would give swimming exhibitions In a tank. "1 wouldn't do it again for anything," said the girl when It was all over. "Not because I got so tired or anything of that aort. but it was so weird in the darkness, thrnklngjDf all the miserably jmy thlngs-that might seize one in the water." CORA RICBT.

DEATH NOTICES IN SPAIN. In the simple manner in which the Spaniards announce the news of a death are Illustrated the quiet taste of the Latins and the simple decorum with which their daily Jives are ordered. Ai thrHTustratloir ho ws th i orm of that is used (s ealculated to warn the person who it that It is not a message of Joy. A letter carrier whose rounds take him through a place where a deceased person bsd looks like a hearse decked with Impreaslre trappings. The size of these remarkable death notices does not depend on the extent of the grief that Is felt by the surrtv might think.

It is established strictly by custom, and every man who rets tbe sttention at all may be aure that when he dies be will he notified" to his friends Just as elaborately as tk. best man in the country. The proper size, for 'ne of Ihese Spanish heart diseaee producers I. I t0- ta5, for ill remarks which, the survivors feel rail. on to make.

Then tbe" herts middle of a ma of hu Smr Trrr-thwr-BW-- VaaUkf hy. surprise by one of these death tlces, for ther can be distinguished ken no- It WOUld, tm aAnriAmw i soc.ey whuld derMt." id r) tw. to ccrese the slis, "for will be torn dejsgci fa 1 -P. HJD A US 4 1 ratttctA 0 Sr. OiioSJiaz Gonzales Girls who can swim and dive with ease and grace, more girls who would like (o swim and a still larger number who find it sufficiently exciting to flop about in a few inches of surf have Gilded to the gayety of the beaches since the hot wave set in.

--The economical girl- has n.p ked her last season suit of white bra Kit a blue serge, and has allowed the briny ocean to wash out the odor of camphor balls. The dashing maid has appear ed In a scant but striking Suit of red, white and blue. And between these extremes, all kinds and degrees of cos tumei hsve been flaunted by as many different kinds of women and girts. The girl who has been learning to take her strokes and float scientifically during the winter in a swimming tank at a Tnnnastura feeli ter wtf-ronfldence deserting her as she caroes to put her principles into practice the appallingly vast body of water ready to swallow her up and the unfeeling spectators regarding her with critical attention. Shetrlea to remember tha direction that have be-ea impressed upon her by her instructor, but the first wsve that knocks her off her feet snd fills her eyes, earl, mouth and nostril "with.

the salt -water destroys the work of months, and she Is fain to grasp a "strong' masculine right hand extended to her with friendly intent and find herself hauled to her feet on solid land. But the principles are all right, and little by little, as she accustoms herself to her surroundings, she laya bold upon them again. "These," said a swimming teach-ir rf long experience, "are a few of the most linporuntaaiDgiJai.ihOplnucxja. remember: "(1) The absolute fact hat It is more difficult for the human body to jQoai. if cs Iikoa-XhkigsJ quietly and confidently.

I always point out to my puplli the ease which great Inanimate bodies are un-fcorne ify the buoyancy -of the water, and try to make them undcritand jat they art culta as sure to supported ca. Ua urf tiityBiy go 1 "it i UkHiUl if m44 (ma lEEII It 1894 5 ATn NOTICE. aiticfril a tfZd'. FACHUCA, 16 tE A. I)F con.