St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
A Hundred Years Hence.
Toronto Graphic.l

Man for the future can but reason
from the past. In a ''undrc1 years ne
has seen or heard Of many changes III
the wo,i,lrous globe he calls his home.
Great souls have come and gone; great
souls will come again. Intellect has
ouickcned the means Of his locOmotlon,
lessened the Adamire course OF toll.
Intellect will do so still. SO he reasons,
and so his logic rests upon the past:
One hundred years ago the world
travelled in numbering coaches ana
sailed to the sea in slow going ships.
To-day the iron horse goes tearing
through the land, and steamers bridge
the widest oceans. Months have chang
ed to weeks and hours. One hundred
years ago the traveller between New
York aud the wilds of Illinois would
have made up his mind to three weeks
trip in numbering wagons, sleepy ferrles
and uncomfortable stages.
In this year OF grace $50 t"" days
and but one night, passed in case and
comfort, see him safely at his journey $
end. When his majesty's troops sal let
from the shores Of England to give
these colonists a lesson, they were for
t,lnate if three weeks tossing Oh the
broad Atlantic brought them i'll sight
of Newfoundland. To-day an eight
! day passage is II matter OF course
Who knows what is to be! Already
: whisperiugs fill the air with Wondrous
! motors. The busy brains of men work.
!" Across the ocean Ill fifteen hours -
so reads the latest taic-t lllc-boat
raised bv gas and sailed by steam.
A hundred years hence! Who that Is
| born to-day will live to see 1t! And
What if he doeso Shall he see a daily
( balloon to London, aud an after-trlp to
Florida Will the docks, now cchoine
to the hiss of steam, he filed by strange
uncarthy shapes with wings and fans
! and gaudy bags of gas Will freight
trains by noisless power pass swiftly
beneath the sea, and pMcCis dart Ike
lightning around the world? Stranger
things than these have happened within
Il hundred years, and some may ave tt
see greater.
\ FEARFUL TEAGEDy.-Ihc Frank
furter Xcitung reports al appalling case
of suicide which occurred a few day:
ago at Edmodiham, and which recall:
, in it's features ancient tragedy. y
farmer named iEot1inger had two sons
J The elder fell in love with the serVan
maid, but had to Join his regiment as
soldier ana serve HIS ttlt' 'C1lo WV
the culOrs. On bis return home lie dis
covered that his brother had supplantr'
, him in the affections OF the maid. TT
: coniured her to allow old relations to h
J rc-cstablishcd, but she refused. 1T
= threatened to commit suicide, but sh
/ laughed at linn. Some days later sh
7 vent SO raras TO tuunt hiLl with coward
' ice, declaring she did not believe h
= could muster courage enough to droWl
= himself III the neighboring, lake, IL
. answered that he would not drown him
S self, but would take away his life III
c manner that would make her hair stan
d on ends. On the morning OF sunday
/ September :. while his parents and SIS
e ters were at church, he tpk IL youn
4 horse from the stable, fa ned IL rrop
;, securely to him, and botshd the end q
y tie rope round his own body. He the
), nut a lighted slow match into the ca
c of the poa animal, which NATURAL
y started off, and mad with pain dragge
t tho unfortunate IIoiiinger with HIM !
y all directions, finally pfunging int" I'll
c Seekirchner Lake. Later in the ia
the two bodies were found in the. lax
d still fastened together. llotiinger's WA
d so fearfully shattered and mutllated a
c to be quite beyond recognition.