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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21
"l LOVE HER AND SHE LOVES
MED

There is maid need not name,
Who seems possessed of every grace
That falls to woman's lot, and makes
Her home most attractive place.
With her dearly love to talk;
With her each hour fain would be,
Nor long for any greater joy;
For love her, and she loves me.
Together We will softly chat,
Or spend the time in silence sweet
Conmuning with each others hearts,
That one unchanging theme repeat
Though many topics we discuss,
We never, never disagree.
But each unto the other yields;
For / love her, and she loves me.
She is not perfect, am sure
Nor am faultless that is clear;
But mirrored in each others eyes,
Ourselves as paragons appear,
With every noble trait imbued,
From every spot and blemish free
Our future happiness assured
Since I love her, and she loves me.
No other eyes may note her charms;
No other voice may chant her praise;
No other heart, save mine, be led
Captive by her beguiling ways.
1t suits me best to have it SO,
And both from jealous pangs are free,
For well we know few hearts can love
As love her-as she loves me.
Josephine Pollard, in ". z. Ledger.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21
Two residents of Chairman q

Two residents of Chapman Quar-
ries, Northampton County, Pa. who
were returning to their homes late at
night, were very badly frightened at
what they supposed was ghost.
They saw white object in corner
on lonesome road, ran to the hotel,
distance of one hundred yards. burst
in the door, cried for help, frightened
the inmates and were nearly scared to
death. The burgess was hustled out
of bed, and accompanied the young
men to the spot where the alleged
ghost was seen, but the spectre had
disappeared. The object was a young
lady dressed IN white. who had been
to an evening party. She saw the
young men coming, and stepped into
the corner to let them pass on.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21

was, apparently, less than nothing
to Mr.. Reginald Brand, and | feared.
with jealous pang, that was of less
consequence 10 my father, rs well,
than | had been.
The first of September two incidents
occurred which were premonition Of
what happened afterwards. We had
started out fishing Immediately after
breakfast, when my father. asking us
TO wait, went back to the hotel for
something he had forgotten. MI.
BIZ and observed that the weather was
fine and drew his handkerchief from
his inner pocket. As he did SO a knot
of soft, scarlet silk came out with it
and fell at my feet. 1t was mine and
/ had missed it for several days. hav-
ing removed it when rowing, and had
left it in the boat. l recognized it at a
glance and looked at him mystified.
But, proffering no explanation, he
stopped down, picked it up and coolly
replaced it in his pocket. Father re-
Joined us just then. and puzzled my
wits over it for an hour or so, and then
forgot it. One evening, little while
after this, / stood on the balcony of
the hotel upon which our home opened,
while father sat within writing at a
table in the center of our private par
Tor. Mr.. Brand was pacing up and
down meditating and smoking as
usual. The moon was full and | stood
by the railing looking across the wide
expanse of silyery water hemmed in
by hills wooded 10 their summit. I
unfastened from my bosom cluster Of
roses that had dropped and withered,
and was about to fling them
away, when his hand deity in
tercepted their fall and he turned
Immediately and walked away, car
rying them with him, before l could
utter word of protest
If my father had observed this
strange proceeding he made no sign.
but finished his letters, sealing and adj
dressing the envelopes with the
greatest deliberations. The next
morning there was not the slightest
change in Mr. Brand impertur bable
manner. He ignored my presence rs
usual, devoted himself to my father,
so that spent the day endeavoring to
convince myself that either I was
laboring under some strange hallu-
cination. or the man was insane.
Further more. after this he was con-
tinually in my thoughts, although I
liked him less than ever. / was more
and more uncomfortable and shud-
dered when / heard his voice or when
he approached me. Finally. it be-
came uncomfortable and ] implored
my father to return to New York.
with all this lovely September
weather yet before us, RobertaP' he
asked.
Yes" replied, let us 60 this
evening. or tomorrow morning &C
the very latest
20, nonsense; this is only q whim.
Besides. I have promised to go with
Mr. Brand tomorrow to see the fruit
farms back in the hills. =
Brand, Brand, I hate the name, /"
/ cried, impetuous,y, and then ] burst
out: 1t is on his account that I wish
to 60. Do you know. father, I believe
the man is . lunatic. = My dignity
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21

"A novel sight witnessed neal
Mount Vernon, Me-. last week was
that of man moving on the ice. A
portion of his farm is in swamp land,
which is too wet to NOW in summer.
but by waiting until it freezes he is en-
abled to harvest large crop of hay
from it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21

Lightning struck a basket of eggs
in farm yard near Meriden. Miss. ;.
not long ago. and man WHO wit
messed the descent of the electric Auid
solmenly declared that it Matched cut
chickens from several of the eggs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21

attorney, that he had kept himself in.
formed as to my whereabouts, and,
with the exception of a few legacies to
charita BILE institutions and distant
relatives. had bequeathed me his en-
tire fortune.
MApy TT KpnTrr
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21

The sum of 81. 600 O0o is to be ex-
pended in beautifying the parks of
New York and laying out new sr,a'l
nnas.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21

A Boston dealer in umbrellas has
the following sentiment conspieuously
displayed: Into all lives the rain must
fall"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21
FREE AT LAST.
The Story of an Unsuccessful
Wooing.
Written for This Paper.1

e had just returned
from Europe, my
father and ], ard
had not settled
definitely upon a
place of permanent
re s id G n ce. We
spent a few weeks
in Nav York rn.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19

seemed to the fugitive that the roll OF the
hoofs might be heard for miles. The
cactus sped past him in grotssqCe shapes,
and the thorny overhanging limbs clutch
ed at him with murderous, OBTAINING hng
ers.
when I reach tbs Matte de 0sa,' he
whispered, I'm safe"
The tnickets had grown denser and the
road harder and DINNER. He could al
most number the miles behind him by
the increasing wilderness and desolate-
ness of the land through which he was
passing. His horse, as he bad said, was
a good one, but il was flesh and blood
and was failing under this strain. There
was no longer the buoyant feel beneath
the saddle. The gallant neck dropped;
the ears were rigid and pointed forward.
There was labor in the heavy breath and
fast-comlug exhaustion ia the weakened
stride. Ahead was an elevation just "A
gentle rise, and clothed with tangled
chapparal TO summit.
, II will walk him TO the top" said
Brady.
He checked the scbbing brute and
plodded slowly upward. He reached the
ridge, glanced hurriedly around, hung
SNtAAhN0 ApA A-Aobhohb hkhAA0N Niie N-NA n
sky-and dropped from the saddle dead.
Two spiteful snaps of fire preceded,
two sharp reports were simultaneous
with the passing. A horse in terror
Numbered down the road. SO sudden was
it that man and beast seemed so have
melted into air. There was rustic in
the underground, aud the wind that blew
softly was all that moved. No form ap.
preached the dead thing. Far on the
breeze came the short, excited barking
of the night fox. mass of vapor over
head rifted for amoment, and a star
shone on the hard face that was still for
ever.-Atlanta Constitution.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19

tious houses, luxurious living, dress, Jew.
elry, even to the frank delight in the dia-
mond shirt stud.
But we are writing about Americans,
and the Americans are the quickest PEG.
| pie in the world to adapt themselves TO
new situations. The Western people tray
! el much, at home and abroad, and they do
not require very long experience to
know what is in bad taste. TAey are as
quick as any body believe they gave Us
| the phrase-to "catch on TO quietness
and low tone. Indeed, don't know but
they would boast that If it Is question of
subdued style, they can beat The world
The revolution which has gore all over
the country since. the Exposition OF
1876 IN house furnishing and decora-
ton Is unite as apparent at the West as
In the East. The West has not suffered
more than the East from eeeentricities of
architecture In the past twenty years Vic.
latlons of goOdtaste are pretty we'll dis
turbed, but of new houses the proportion
OF handsome, solid, good structures is as
large in the West as in the East 6nd in
the cities l think the West has the udvan-
tage in variety. IL must be frankly said
that il the fastener is surprised ct the |
size, cost, and palatial character of many
of their residences, he is not less surpris. |
ed by the refinement and good taste of |
their interiors. There are cases where !
money is too evident, where the splendor |
has been ordered, but there are plenty of |
other cases where individual taste is APP |
parent, and love of harmony and beauty. |
What | am trying to say is that the East |
undertakes the real refinement of living |
going along with the admitted cost and |
luxury in the West The art of dining is |
said to be best of oivihzstion-on q Ger
tain plane Well, dining in good houses
Il believe that is the phrase) is much the
same East and West as TO appointments, |
service cuisine, and talk, with trife |
more freedom and sense of newness in |
the West. No doubt there il difference
IN tone, appreciable but not easy to define |
1t relates less to the things than the way |
the things are considered. Where
family has had things" for two or three
generations they are less an object than
an unregar1ed matter of course; where
things and a mannar of living are newly
acquired, they have more i'm portauoe in
themselves. An old community, if it is
really civilized L mean state in which /
intellectual concerns are Paramount,
values less and less, as an ond, merely
material refinement. The tendency all
over the United States il for wealth to
run into vugarity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
The West From the East
Harr4arfc Maya7fpa

visitor at club in Chicago was
pointed out T. table at which usually
lunched hundred and fifty millions OF
dollars! This impressive statement was
as significant in its way as the list of the
men, in the days Of Emerson, Agassil,
and Longfellow, who dined together as
the Saturday Club in Boston. We cannot,
however, geperalize from this that the
only thing considered in the Northwest is
money, and that the only thing held in
estesm in Boston is Intellect
The chief concerns in the Northwest
are material, and the making of money,
sometimes termed the development Of
resources is OF the fret importance.
In Minneapolis and st. Paul social posi-
ton is more determined by money than it
is in most Eastern cities, and this makes
social life more democratic, so far as
traditions and family are concerned. /
desire not to overstate this, for money is
potent every where; but ! should say that
person not devoted TO business, or not
succeeding in it, but interested rather in
intellectual pursuits study, research, art
mot decorative), education, and the ike
would find less sympathy there than IN
Eastern cities Of the same size, and less
consideration. Indeed, / was told, more
than once, that the spirit of plutocracy is
so strong in these cities as 70 make q
very disagreeable atmosphere for people
who value the higher things in life more
than money and what money only will
procure, and display which is always
more or less vulgar. Bat it IS necessary
20 get closer to the facts than this state
ment.
The mate falistic spirit is very strong
in the West; OF necessity it is, il the
struggle for existence and position going
on there, and in the unprecedented OPP
portunities for making fortunes. And
hence arises a prevailing notion that any
education j. of little value that does not
bear directly upon material success,
should say that the professions, including
divinity and the work Of the scholar and
the man Of letters, do not have the weight
there that they do in other places. The
I professional man, either in the college or
the pulpit, is expected to look alive and
/ keep up with the procession. Tradition
ia weak; il is no objection to thing thai
/ il 10 new, and in the general strain sen
stations" are welcome. The general mot
TO is, "Be alive; be practical" Naturally
also, wealth recently came by desires &c
assert itself little in display, in ostenta
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
KAISER WILHELM.
Anecaotes of the Old Warrior


Many stories about the kaiser are cur
rent, says the Pail Mall Gazette. The
most characteristic, perhaps, is one rela-
tive to the battle of Sadoua. The king,
followed by Bismarck, was in very dan
gerous spot. The chancellor prayed his
majesty TO withdraw. The king replied
"When my army advances TO the can
mons mouth it is my duty to be in the
midst of it." Bismarck remained silent,
but when he found his position unbeara-
BILE he exclaimed: CAS- . major have no
advice to give your majesty on the field
of battle, but as your prime minister
am bound to beg of your majesty not to
expose his life in such manner" The
king listened to this remonstrance and
reluctantly drew back a little, but Bis
marck, not considering the retreat sufllc
iently rapid, gave kick TO his majesty's
horse, which galoped off. The kaiser
Was very il! in the spring of 1885, and the
doctors prohibited his attending the mil
itary mannuvers on horseback. His mai
esty refused to go in carriage, adding:
"Such thing would be most anti-mili-
tary." To which a general present re-
Joined; "Sire, you forget that Frederick
the Great went in carriage on similar
occasion" "Yes," replied his majesty,
but he only did so during the last years
of his life" The kaiser was then 80 and
evidently considered himself a young
man. Another military anecdote; The
emperor had just received the visit of a
celebrated general who had been placed
on the retired list. "a brave soldier"
exclaimed his majesty; "what pity 1t ia
he can no longer mount on horseback y
And then, after a few minutes silence, he
added; 'Alas! neither can l, and it / were
an ordinary general l should have been
placed on the same list Hong ago"
Everybody knows that the peror was
in the habit of showing himself to his
subjects from a window of the palace
during the changing of the guard. After
one of his crises he wanted TO get up and
go to the window as usual but the doc
tors opposed, on which his majesty ex
claimed: "Oh, leave me alone! / ought
TO do it.. Doesn't Baedeker announce in
his guide that | am to be seen every day
at the Window" The Emperor William
during his lifetime saw disappear from
the scene six popes, Sight emperors. fifty
two kings, six sultans, and twenty-one
presidents -Four of these are still alive,
but the remaining eighty nine are all
dead. Kaiser Wilhelm possessed among
other virtues of the Hohenzollerns, that
of economy. Without falling into the
sordid avarice of Frederick the Great, he
knew how to reckon aud succeeded in
raising the fortune of his house, which
was al one time very low.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
SOME CHINESE sUPERsrnIoNs.
How Earth Spirits Are Propitloted and De-
mons Driven Away.
Science Monthly

Science Monthly
The superstitious beliefs and obser
vances of the Chinese are numberless, and
they occupy moro or less the time and
mind OF every individual in the nation
Those here recorded are common among
the people near Swatow. / am unable to
say how many of them are purely local.
When a child is just one month old, the
mother, carrying it in scarf on her back,
induces it to look down into a we'll. This
is supposed to have mentally invigorat-
ing effect, producing courage and deepen
ing the understanding.
A mother feeds her young infant from
a cup rather than from bowl or plate,
because a bowl being capacious has an
occult influence in making the child a
large eater; while a plate, being shallow
causes him to throw up his food on slight
provocation. The cup, being small and
deep, insures his taking but little TODD,
and keeping it for assimilation.
When the child becomes i'll the mother
gathers thorns from twslye species of
plants and makes an infusion in which
she washes the child hoping to wash the
disease, with the demon that produces it,
into the water. She then carries the
water TO an open space where many peo-
pie go TO an fro and there tGrows it upon
the ground. Az she goes from her own
house the inhabitants of the streets she
travcrses shut their doors, to prevent the
disease from entering their abodes. A
woman of my acquaintance recently told
me that, having no fear of demons, she
did ut shut her door when neighbor
passed her house carrying water in which
child having fever and ague had just
been washed and the very ncxt day she
herself had chillsl
II child falls from high place to the
ground spirit money is Immediately
burned upon the spot by the neither, to
propitiate the demon who is trying TO
pull the child down to destruction.
When a child has fallen there is danger
that he may have left his twelve wits in
the earth on which he fell, so the mother
at once makes with her empty hand the
motion of dipping from the ground TO
the child's chest. Thus she replaces in
the child what might otherwise be per
manently lost in the soil. If man fall
into a cesspool or well long handled
dipper is used to dip out and restore to
lis bosom his scattered senses; then three
sheets OF spirit money are thrown burn
ing into the well and q heavy stone is
cast after IT,
1t ia unlucky to leave much hair on a
boys head when be is old enough 20 wear
queue; therefore the head should be
shaved so as to leave but q small patch
on the crown. Abundant hair ia sym.
bolic OF a burden on the head and heavy
queue may soon bring the care of fam
lily upon the boy through the death of hiF
father.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
industrial Breyities.

Though an agreeable article OF diet'
GAYS The Post.Express OF Rochester, y.
Y. of Feb. u, the turnip has never as
sumed very great Importance N me
vegetable world. Owing 70 the quantity
Of water In it the turnip is not considered go
a delicacy. II is said to have about w
ner cent. OF water in it's compositions
II remained for William r. l4atz, 81 70
50 Clinton place, to discover tae posi-
biHlies of esculeI I. About three weeks
ago a member Of Mr. Latz's family placed
full grown tpruip in cup OF water
Contrary to expectations, and ike 'ne
sIittle peach OF emerald hue 1t grew sho
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19

The II eat is packed in tins waile raw,
then sealed and cooked IN an outer vessel
of boiling water, with sometimes the add
ton Of chemicals 10 raise the tempera'
ture. When cooked the can il pierced,
and, as soon az the air and steam are e1-
PEELED, it 10 soldered. Experts know "hen
il il ready for soldering 3 moment 700
soon and the mischief Is done, because u
air was left in the tin buges and the meat
will not be good. On the contrary, II the
tin has shrunk, it ia an iufallibie sign Of
goodness; IL proves vacuum, when y
natural. as the meat shrinks when no ar
is ia the can.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
Ghsstly Bell Ringing Explained.
Globe Democrat.

"Ons Of the Oldest houses In the State
OF Missouri has long suffered under the
reputation OF being haunted" said Henry
Shaw of Ste. Geneyieve, the other day.
~ refer 20 tho residence of General FIR
man Rozier OF Ste. Genevieve. The build
ing was erected about 1906, being for
many years used as school by the Sis
ters OF the Order OF the Visitation. For
the last forty years the popular report
was that IL was infested by spirits, mya-
FERROUS tappings on the walls and mex
plicable ringing OF the bells giving rise
70 these stories. One night, IN the win
ter Of 1864, ! believe, the family was
reused by loud ring at the door. On
going 10 see who the caller atthis unseen
ly hour could be, 70 trace Of any one
could be- found, and the snow that thick
~ covered the steps and the path leading
10 the house was uutrodden. The mys-
terious rings, however, continued all night,
aud the next day the servants refused to
remain longer in the house. searching
investigation was made, but with 10 re-
salts, and the family were about TO aband-
on an attempts to solys the mystery
when n smal hole WAS noticed in the
WhlnscOtlnR near lnS Atuhb uo"f. Inns
WAS examined, the result being that
nest Of mice was found ia the space be.
tween the plasterinR aud the brick, and
traces OF q recently formed passage IN
the immediate neighb0rhood OF the boil
wire were also found. Ia passing to an
fro the mice pulled the wire, causing th'
bell to ring and producing the inerpiie
able sounds. This explanation, although
entirely satisfactory TO the family, failed
20 calm the fears Of the servants, who be-
lisyo 10 this day that the house is the re
hOrt Of Rhostlg visitors.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
He Actually Caught On

A New York dude was making nui-
sapce Of himself by calling six evenings
in the week at the house Of a highly re-
spectacle young lady on Madison Avenue
At last he proposed, whereuPoH she
said.
"whatl you esk me to marry you, you
google eyed, handy LEGGED galoot! Get
out Of the house or III soald you. IA
rather marry a monkey. II you don't
move yeui self out of this houss In one
minute and half Ill call my father, and
he will wear out his boots on YOU
Dude-"Good gracious, MISS Fanny
ars you giving ms the mittenY"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
Rnttermllk for Consumption

A woman of Kingston, \. y, who had
been pronounced by her physician fatally
in with consum ption and who was appHr
emily DYING a. fast az that slow pacing
disease could carry her of, was told by q
neiebbor that she had been assisting a
lady at churning and had much enjoyed
a drink of buttermilk. "Buttermilk.'
f.irly screamed the invalid, how / wish
that / could have drinkl' And from
thai time till her friend could go to tho
hopss where the churning had taken
place and bring the longed-for draught
She raved and cried for H. She drank u
and felt better. Then smother churning
vas hurried up and she drank again
The lady made her churnings more ire
ouent and small 10 please the dying WON
an. In a little while the news was brought
tina. she was improving. 4 few day
later she was out OF danger. A week
elapsed and she was on her feet and
about the house. And now she IL again
busting, busy womsn-not strong, but
apparently in good health, with no symp-
toms of deadly disease lurking around
There ia no doubt, she says, the butter
milk cured her. As physicians say III
went right to the spot. Il nourished hei
poor, famished body, filled up the d-ied
out tissues, and gave her strength and
courage"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-19
THE FARM AND FlRESIDE,
ONE OF TIE SLEEPY KIND.
soNrERvuLE JOURNAL.

love 10 wake az early dawn.
When spa rows cheap,
And then tura over with yawn
Aud 20 TO sleep.
owe 20 see the risingsuu
In picture boo
In nature don care a bun
How Phpbus looks.
love TO lie ahed each morn.
In DREAMY uoze,
Aud make the neishhorhood forl0rn
With tunpfui nose
love to draw the tllukets we'll
Op around my chin:
hate 20 hear toe breakfast bell
COnt0und It's dbl
In short love the sweet embrace
on sluulher deep,
And heaven 20 me, " I'D be q place
Where | can sleep