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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-04

One of the peculiar feas sres of the
Territory Of Idaho is the occurrence
Of dark, rocky chasms. into which
large streams and creeks disappear
and are never more seen. These
assures are old lava channels. At one
place along the banks Of the Snake
one Of these rivers reappears, gushing
from cleft high up insthe basaltic
walls. where it leaps. cataract. into
the torrent below. Where this stream
has its origin is a mystery, though it
is believed to be long way in the
north.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Patient waiting is often the high
est way of doing Gods will.
PRAYER is the outlet of the saints
sorrow, and the inlet of their supports
and comforts. FlaUet.
The absence of sentimentalism i'll
makes his tenderness so eXqulsltely
touching. Philips Brooks.
The Christian who does not enjoy
solitude at times has not advanced far
in the school of Christ. The still small
voice comes in the still hour. Chris
tan A1c0cate.
Sometimes truth is like keen
weapon in q child's hand, it makes lit
tie impression because it is weakly
welded. Do not therefore blame the
truth, but the weak hand. -Spurgeon.
60 on in the strength of the Lord,
and put Christ's love to the trial; put
upon it burdens, and then it will appear
love indeed; we have not recourse tc
his love, and therefore we know it not.
Samuel Rutherford.
"A good man in New Bedford was
not so far out of the way when he used
to say i'll conference meeting: 'Breth-
rem, we have been mercifully spared in
passing through many scenes and UNI
seems. '-Boston CongregationaIist.
Every man takes care that his
neighbor shall not cheat him. But
day comes when he begins to care that
he does not cheat his neighbour. Then
all goes well. He has changed his
market cart into chariot of the sum-.
Emerson.
Theodore Parker, when uttering
the Lords prayer, used to say, For
give us our tresspasses as we should
forgive those who trespass against us!'
He also prayed, LEAD US from temp
tation,n instead of Lead us not into
temptation!''
While the church of Christ has
been gathering in not more than three
millions of converts from the heather
world the natural increase of that
world has been twenty millions. Must
somewhere along our lines of work.
The Messenger.
The gospel, says DR.. Arthur Pier
son, is two-edged sword, having law
on one side and grace ON the other,
but they meet in a point. As the
sword loses its value, to degree, if
either edge is dulled, so the gospel is
shorn of its power if only a part of the
is given.
No man is fitted for doing the best
work in the world if he is without rev.
erence. Not only in the Bible, but in
all the world about us, and especially
in human life, God has taught us to
cultivate this disposition, and he has
made US feel that we are sadly wanting
if without it. United Presbyterian
What sad world this would be to !,
a thoughtful man if there were nothing
beyond this world! Not for himself, per-
haps, but for others, there is need of y
another life to make this life tolerable
to one who observes and reflects. On
every side there are deserving ones
who suffer far more than the unde-
serving. And there are saints whose
lives are lives of toll and trial and
failure. Here, often, if not
always, the fittest die and the unfttest
survive. If there were nothing to live
Tor beyond the life that now is, the
helps to true character-making would
cost more than their apparent worth.
School Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-04

Cracker Fruit Pudding: ST,
crackers pounded fine, one quar-
boiling milk. one cup brown sugar,
one spoonful flour, six eggs, rajsins,
entrants. and all kinds of spice. Bak,
one hour.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-04
"A lady teacher of music in Ontario

"A lady teacher of music in Ontario
County, N. Y, inserted her profess
sional card in one of the county news.
papers. It was seen by an old lover in
Chicago, who at once hunted her up,
explained his absence of quarter OF
century, and married her. It pays to
advertise,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-04

Sir John Lubbock, IN his lecture
on ..SaTages,' says that the negroes
never kissed until they were taught by
che white people.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-04

There isn't much doubt that Caps
Cod is getting eaten up by the greedy
sea, and in time viii disappear. The
ProvincosoWa 4d0ocate says that less
than one hundred years have passed
since a lighthouse was placed here by
the Governments Tho original pur-
chase included a plot Of land ten acres
In extent. Al the present time this
Enclosure embraces barely six acres.
On 4 point just north of the Marine
Stations at Highland Light the face Of
the bluff has moved inland two hun
dred feet iii the past ave years. ''
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15
THE NEW CHAMBER
In which cineinnati's Merchants VIII
Daily congregato for Business

The above is a picture Of one OF the
finest structures In the country. 1t viii
be finished the latter part Of the present
year, and dedicated near the close OF the
Exposition. The plan of the building is
strictly utilitarian, the aim being to obtain
the greatest practical advantages for It's
distinctive purposes that can be had
within reasonable limits of outlay. The
structure has been regarded as one OF
permanent character, and the probabili-
ties of an enlarged speculation and an
advancing standard of civilized require
ments have not been overlooked. The
general plan of the building conforms to
the shape of the lot (the site of the old
postof1ice building at the southwest cor
ner of Fourth and Vine), and is $50 feet
long by 100 feet wide. The angles at the
corners are rounded off, and from the
second story are carried up in the form Of
towers rising slightly above the roof, and
thus giving great dignity to the exterior
of the building. The circular bays in
the great hall formed by these towers
make retired places, where men interested
in some particular matter may escape
from the hustle of the room and congre-
gate to discuss and transact business
during change hours.
The building is entered from all three
/ .,n atr infa
secting the hall running through from
Fourth to Burnet streets. A grand stair
case leads from the principal entrance on
| Fourth street to the main hall of the
chamber of commerce, and is continued
up through the entire height of the build
ing.
Two elevators next the grand stair
case serve the main hall, also the offices
above. A third elevator is placed next
offices and for the convenience of the
officers of the chamber of commerce in
going to the offices on that side of the
building.
The great hall of the chamber of COM
merce is 14O feet long by 68 feet wide,
and with its lobby contains 10, 340 square
feet This hall is lighted by eleven win
,dows, 10 feet inches wide, extending
from the floor to within ten feet Of the
ceiling. In the great hall is the presi-
dents stand, three telegraph offices and
six telephone boxes. The lobby is 40
feet long by 1S feet wide, lighted from
above by skylight. er ~
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at the election next ensuing and served
another year as president.
BE served as president of the Hamilton
County Agricultural society in its days Of
great popularity and efficiency, and was
successful competitor in exhibits of farm
stock and products at the fairs.
Col. Caldwell is the first American
born and the oldest survivor of the first
Irish immigrant family that settled in the
territory northwest Of the Ohio river He
was born March 30, 1900, in Franklin, o.
He assisted at the organization of Miami
University at Oxford, o., November 1,
1924, and graduated in 1897 with the
second class ever graduated in that in
stitution.
At the breaking out of the Mexican
war he was chairman of the military
committee of Hamilton county, and with
the rank of colonel, was commissioned by
the governor of Ohio to organize and send
forward from Camp Dennison the drafted
men, numbering one thousand, who were
ordered to report there from ten Of the
river counties Of eastern Ohio, which
service he performed.
He was appointed United States minis
ter to Bolivia, one of the independent
republics of South America, in 1868, and
represented this government at La Paz,
the capital, until his successor was ap-
pointed by the British government. L.,
was paid handsome compliment and
received high honor for his humanity
and disinterested benevolence.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15

LOOKOUT HOUSE AND INCLINED PLANE.
crowds go there in pursuit of the same
relaxation and enjoyment, and upon
no night in spring or summer does the
tired musician or attendant get rest.
AS rule, all the resorts are con Quoted
with strict regard for the proprieties,
and it is an uncommon thing to note the
least disturbance. These are the breath
ing places of Cincinnatians; popular be-
cause SO easy of access; no toiling up
steep hills, although they are many hun
ired feet above the level Of the river that
runs mile away, but you are trans
ported noiselessly and swiftly to the top
by steam railroad that seems to end in
the air. Truly, this is the city of in
slinedplanes, and were they abandoned,
the thousands OF people residing on the
hills, up which these planes SO swiftly
5ake them, would be placed at great in
convenience.
One Of the most beautiful parks in this
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15
THE BREATHING PLACES
FOR WHICH CINCINNATI Is NOTED
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

Her Hilltop Resorts, Her Parks, and
Her "Zoo" Garden-A Distinctive Ger
Queen City.
Cincinnati has always been noted for
her amusements, and during the Gen.
tennial year it is not likely that she will
allow herself to take a back seat when
so many strangers will be within her
gates, all hirnt upon being entertained.
1t has not y:t been decided by the vari'
Gus managers of theaters here whether
they will keep open their doors or not
the opinion to I certain extent prevailing
among them that the Exposition will
prove such an attraction that they would
be forced to play to empty benches. Some
of the craft, however, contend that the
theaters will catch the overflow, which,
they argue, will be of such magnitude
as will repay them for keeping up at
fractions during the hot season.
No matter how the question is decided,
the visitor to the city between the 4th of
July and the 9th of October, when the
great show will have put up the bars,
will find plenty to amuse and attract.
Take the hilltop resorts for in
stance. At these places the latch string
is always out, and in summer time, ,when
the tired citizen wants breath of fresh
air, he hies himself to either the Highland
House, Prices Hill, the Bellevue or the
Lookout House, and, sitting down IN a
cool place with perhaps glass of beer or
something milder before him, gives him
self up to the music or to viewing the
ever-changing kaleidoscope of people as
they pass before him.
The Highland House affects to be the
fashionable resort, considered so because
it is most easy of access to the denizens
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CINCINNATI NOTES.
Interesting Data on Various Subjects Of
the Queen City.

Interesting Data ON Various Subjects Of
the Queen City.
Cincinnati has spent nearly So, 900, 900
IN bridges across the Ohio.
The total area of exhibiting space in
the Centennial will be 650,000 square
feet.
The first paid steam fire department in
this country was organized in Cincinnati
in 1853.
Columbia, village annexed to Cincin-
natl few years ago, was settled by pio-
neers in 1888. 1t is a year older than
Losantiville, or Cincinnati.
The old Cincinnati college (now the
Young Mems Mercantile Library associ-
atom was established in 1919, and
Lancaster school, organized in 1915, was
merged into it,
The recently organized Cincinnati Press
club will have elegant quarters in the
Centennial buildings, where the ''rural
rooster from the country press will find
O warm welcome.
1t has almost been forgotten that TO
Reuben Springer, who gave to Cincinnati
her splendid Music Hall, the st. Peters
Cathedral is indebted for her chime Of
bells, donated in 1850.
1t is difficult to believe that Ben
Hopkins, now in Jail awaiting sentence
to the penitentiary for the Fidelity bank
troubles, was treasurer of the Cincinnati
Exposition board in 1883
Camp Washington, now in the city
limits, received its name from the fact
that it was the camping place of the
First and Second Ohio regiments at the
beginning of the Mexican war in 1846.
Mammoth new buildings are being
erected for the Centennial, which will
give, under one continuous roof, exhibit
ing space equal to that in building o
third of mile long and five hundred
feet wide.
The finest effects ever seen in this coun-
try will be made by colored electric
lights upon a magnificent fountain in the
principal hall of the Centennial building.
The idea originated with the Liver
pool exhibition during the jubilee year.
| Fort Washington, q block mouse ana
large enclosure of pickets, was erected
about 1890 for the early settlers Of
Losantiville (now Cincinnatf. 1t was
intended for q protection against the
savages, and was large enough to con-
tain the entire population with, provisions
to stand siege.
The area of Cincinnati for twenty-five
years previous to 1870, when the first
annexation was made, was 4, ,48O acres,
or seven square miles. The territory an
nexed amounted to 8,0S5 acres, or 1915
square miles. The last annexation, in
1878, brought in 1896 acres, or 4.25
square miles, making the total number
of aces 1920, and the total square
miles "a. The Ohio river frontage Of the
city, from Columbia on the east to River
side on the west, is II miles.
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meritorious services at Fort Donel-
son and Shiloh he was commits.
stoned a brigadier general Of volun-
teers, and later, for gallantry at Vicks-
burg and Chickasaw bayou, he won
the double stars of major general. On
the admission of Nebraska into the union
as state, he took a seat in congress as a
senator for the term ending in 1871. In
1876 he was made governor of Wyoming
Territory.
A. p. Morehouse, who succeeded to
the governorship of Missouri upon the
demise of Gov. Marmaduke, is native
of Delaware county, Ohio, where he was
born July II. 1885. He left school at
twenty, became teacher at Camden, re-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15

GOV. BEAVER. tually Is. Beaver
entered the service as captain of Com
pany H, Second Pennsylvania infantry,
in the three months campaign, at the
end of which time he was commissioned
lieutenant colonel of the Forty-tfth
Pennsylvania infantry. On September
4, 1859, he resigned his command to take
command Of the One Hundred and
Forty eighth regiment. At the battle of
Charlottesville he was shot through the
body, and the wound was supposed to be
fatal. Before rejoining his regiment, and
just after his convalescence, he organized
and sent to the field the emergency men
from Camp Curtin, who fought so well
at the battle of Gettysburg. At Cold
Harbor he was again wounded, this time
in the hip, and for his galautry in this
action was promoted to the command of
his brigade with the rank of brigadier
general. Going north soon after the
battle of Petersburg, in which he was
once more wounded in the side by a piece
of shell, he remained there until the bat
tie of Ream's station, on August 4, 1854
when he lost leg. This loss obliged
him to retire from the service, when he
returned to Bellefonte, where he resumed
the practice of law. He married the
daughter of his law partner and pre-
ceptor in 1866. He was defeated for gov
ernor in 1882.
No one who reads the papers but re-
members the rather singular political
fight waged in Tennessee some months
ago, in which the contestants for the po-
sition of governor of the state were two
brothers-Alfred A. and Robert L. Taylor
the former nominated by the Repub-
licans, the latter by the Democrats. The
canvass was hot and lively, and from its
very nature attracted unusual attention.
The Democrat won, and his picture is
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15

GOV. E. WILLIS WILSON. and persistent op-
position to bill for the transfer of the
Kanawha river to corporation. The
bill had passed the house and was on
its third reading in the senate on the last
day of the session.
Mr.. Wilson obtained the floor and spoke
the session out, thus saving the Kanawha
river from corporate control, and opening
the way for the magnificent improvement
of that stream now in progress by the
general government. Again elected to
the house OF delegates in 1876, and re-
elected in 1880, he was chosen speaker of
that body, and served with distinction.
The canvass, at the end of which he was
elected governor of his native state, was
ole of the most memorable in it's history.
Colonel John A. Martin, of Kan
sas was born March 10, 1889, at
Brownsville, Pa Learning the print
ers' trade, he went to Pittsburg in
1S47, and was employed in the office of
the Commercial Journal, and in October
of that year emigrated to Kansas, loca-
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standard bearer, ROBERT L TAYLOR
by the receipt of the following dispatch
from his official superior in Washington:
ttIn pursuance Of the instructions Of the
honorable secretary of the interior, 1t is
better for you not to attend the nomina
ting convention
Richard j. Oglesby, of Illinois, has had
an eventful, active and somewhat
checkered career, but an exemplary
life. He was born in Oldham county,
Kentucky, in 1924. At the age of twelve
years he, with his parents, removed to the
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HIGHLAND HOUSE.

of beautiful Walnut Hills or aristocratic
Clifton and Avondale, Here minstrel
troupe or light opera company can he
found all summer, and the attendance
upon the performances is always good
drawn thither as much for the outdoor
air as for the music or acting.
Directly opposite, and across the entire
width of the city proper, and upon the
same altitude, and which at night looks
like far off illuminated castle, can be
seen the electric lights that shine on the
Prices Hill House, and renders it dis.
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tinguishable from all points of the com
pass. 1t is like beacon light to the
shipwrecked mariner, and it lures to its
hospitable embrace that large floating
population that is ever on the move,
as well as the staid citizen and his
family, who wish to vary the monotony
of home life by basking in the light and
companionship that provokes merriment
and good fellowship,
Looking to the north and east, you see
the well known Bellevue House perched
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GEN. s. B. BUcKNER. Kentucky state mi
litia, and he took a brigade of them with
him into the Confederate service. He
was in command at Fort Donelson when
Grant captured it, but this misfortune
seemed not to lessen his popularity in the
south. At the close of hostilities he be-
came reconstructed, settled down to
business, made a fortune, married the
second time, and has been enjoying the
ease of country gentleman. He was a
great admirer of Grant, and when that
immortal hero became financially wrecked
by the treachery of Ferd Ward, Buckner
sent him a check for $4,000, rendered in
the most delicate manner, and made it
plain that it was not to be paid back I'M
til it was entirely agreeable. This fact
was never known until Grants death.
Buckner is tall. white-haired and dis
tinguished looking, and presses closely
upon sixty years.
Cyrus G. Luce, governor of Michigan,
is an Ohio man, and was born in 1924. In
1886 he removed with his parents to In
diana, where he obtained common
school education. At the age of twenty
four he ran for the legislature on the
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colonel, and after a years service was
promoted colonel and was afterward
provost marshal of Nashville, Tenn.
Participating in all of the battles fought
by the Twenti til army corps, he rose to
be the commander Of brigade until his
muster out at Pulaski, Tenn, on Novem
ber II, 1854.
When Sumter was fired on in 1861,
Joseph Benson Foraker was fifteen years
of age, His elder brother at once en-
listed, and Ben. wanted to follow him,
but was met with the disappearing words
Of the mastering officer: ''My boy, you
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In 1885 he was elected governor by ma
jority of six thousand. At the last
election he was again chosen as the chief
executive of his state by a handsome
majority. A Jealous friend of the COM
mon school system, hard worker for his
constituents, kind, affable and easily ap-
preached, of plain dress and unostenta-
tious, Gov. William Larrabee is loved
by his fellow-men.
f. Willis Wilson was born at Harper's
Ferry, Jefferson county, West Virginia,
in 1874 His early education was ac-
quired in the common schools and at II
commercial college In 1866 he began
the study of law without an in
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won distinction and the thanks Of his su.
periors at the battles OF Fort Henry,
Corinth and Fort DonelsOn. At Corinth
he was seriously wounded, and his in
juries finally caused him to resign. Re-
turning TO his home in Decatur, he re-
sumed the practice Of his profession, and
has resided there ever since. He not only
represented his state ably and aceeptably
in the United Sta.es senate, but such is
his popularity with his party that he is
now serving his third term as Governor.
William Larrilbee is a native Of Con-
necticut, and was born in 1882. While
quite young man he removed to Iowa
and began his life there as a farmer.
Three years later, or in 1858, he entered
the milling and manufacturing business,
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upon massive aggregation of rock that
seems to be on the point of toppling over
to dash itself and its burden upon the
houses hundred feet below Here, too,
is good cheer, music, dancing and the
inevitable beer drinking, and one would
imagine while gazing upon the ever
shifting scene that there was no such
thing as poverty or wretchedness or
crime, but that life was an eternal holi-
day.
Close by the Bellevue, the huge pile
situated on the extreme bluff of one of
the many high hills for which Cincinnati
is noted, and also reached by an inclined
plane that makes the uninitiated hold his
breath in ascending, stands forth in bold
relief the Lookout House. The sans
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ting at Atchison,
W h ere he pur-
chased the jour
nal. called the
Squatter S e r
e ign, but which
he soon aft e +
named the Free
MATHS Champion.
In the summer Of
1851 he assisted IN
the organization
of the Ell g hit h
| Kansas infantry,
and was appoint
ed its lieutenant
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party for COVER
nor of Pennsyl-
vania, and at the
same time to re-
ceive the plaudits
of the vast as
sembly. He is not
more than fifty
years of age, but
his services in the
army during the
: civil war aged
!; him greatly, and
; he appears much
older than he ac-
tually is, Beaver
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Sucker State"
and has there re-
sided ever since,
and no one Of her
adopted sons has
risen to greater
eniinence, eith h #
as a lawyer, a
Is t a t e S m an or a
Ssoldier. Serving
with distinction in
the Mexican war,
he entered the