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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
Ice in the Sick-Room

saucerful of shaved ice, says the New
York IMedical Times, may be preserved for
twenty-four hours with the thermometer
in the room at 90 F., if the following
precautions are observed: Put the saucer
cont aiming the ice in soup plate and cover
it with an.1her. Place tie soup plates
thus arranged on good, heavy pillow,
and cover it with another pillow, pressing
the pillows so that The plates are COM
pletely embedded in them. An old jack
plane set deep is most excellent tning
with which to shave ice. 1t should be
turned bottom upward and the ice showed
backward and forward over the cutter.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
YOU AND L.

When you and have older grown,
And reaped the grain Ly folly sown,
When we have garnered all the sheaves
OF waving grass and withered leaves.
When we shall reach life's highest hill,
Say, will we love each other stills
Will all the trials we meet e'er then.
When chords shall break. rebind again.
II God should leave US side by side
Until our footsteps near the tide
Will love still live and not grow cold!
Or will it be that tale so old?
1t may be love, it may be hate,
The years dictate the futures fate,
And what we live and what we do
Is what Well meet when life is through.
So as the changeful years go by,
Let love be lord of you and [.
Lille BinKiey. in The Anerican
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
The seats were all full and one was oc-

The seats were all full and one was oc-
cupied by Unlocking Irishman. At
one of the stations a couple of well-bred
and intelligent looking young ladies came
in to procure seats, but seeing 10 vacant
ones, were about 10 go into another car,
when Patrick rose hastily aud offered them
his seat with evident pleasure. "Bat you
will have no seat for yourself" responded
one of the ladies with smile. and with
tyuest politeness hesitating to accept it.
"Never ye moind that" said the Hiber-
MAN, eyer welcome to it. I'd ride upon
the COW Ike tcher from here till New York
fer snoile from such g,ntienanly ladies'.
and 1etreat.d Into the next car, amid the
applause of those who witnessed the Incl
t.-G2neraL Man0qer.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
Notable Events,

First jury $40.
Pins made 1850.
Needles used 1915.
FIRST cast iron 1904.
Matches made 1929.
Surnames used 1862.
First newspaper 1894.
Coal used as fuel 1884.
Lead pencils used 1894.
Window glass used 694.
First gold coin B. {. 206.
Tobacco introduced 1888.
FIRST steam railroad 1880.
First postage stamp 1880.
Kerosene introduced 1926.
First Illuminating gas 1892.
Electric light invented 1874.
Iron found in America 1915.
First wheeled carriages 1869.
First American express 1921.
Musical notes introduced 1888.
Latin ceased to be spoken $50.
Bible translated into Saxon 637.
Gunpowder used by Chinese $50.
Bible translated into Gothic S72.
Photographs first produced 1909.
Old Testament finished B. C. 430.
Emancipation proclamation 1868.
Paper made by Chinese B C. 22O.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
Editors Must Be Careful

A valuable subscriber sends US the Ten
Commandments and asks us to publish
them. Under the circumstances we must
decline to do SO. 1t is true that the Com
mandments were writer several thou and
years ago; but if we were to publish them
some person would be sure to think they
were all aimed at him, and so stop the
paper. The publisher of newspaper has
got to be very careful about such thlngs
Be.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
A Close Relation,

It is related that Sir Nicholas Bacon was
about to pass judgment upon man who
had been guilty of robbery, at that time
punishable by death; but the culprit
pleaded for mercy on the ground that he
was related to the judge. chow is that q
he was asked. "My lord" was the reply,
''your name is Bacon, mine is HogeS and
hog and bacon have always been censid-
cred akin" "That is true" answered Sir
Nicholas; "but as hog is not bacon until it
has hung, until you are hanged you are
no relation of mine. "-bGn Francisco dr.
a0naut
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
About Renewing,

Hundreds of subscriptions expire this
month. Is yours among the number =?
Look at the date of your label and ascer-
tain if it does. We ask for prompt re-
newal, And when renewing induce your
neighbor to send dollar. too, aud thus
obtain for yourself copy of the "Chris,
in the Temple" described elsewhere. Is
not dollar picture good return for the
trouble IN securing one new subs criher?
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
Cheap Stamps.

''The're selling things cheap at the cor
ner store"
'Are, eh?"
eyes, thirteen postage stamps for cent
and quarter.
What Thirteen stamps for cent and
a quarter2'
Exactly"
"Why-"
"same as at the postoffice-twenty six
cents; Amt that cent and qusrter-ot
follar2"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
Our Sugar Industry.

Representative Peters, of Kansas. in a
recent interview tslegraphsd from Wash
ington to the New York Eosning Post,
says:
II wish you would say, by the way, that
found something in Louisiana more inter
esting than politics-namely, the sugar
industry. 1t is simply immense I saw
enough to convince me that Louisiana has
only to cultivate this native resource, with
Spch help as Kansas can offer with her
sorghum crops, tosuppTy the home mark
cts SO richly that there will be no call for
the importation of sugar from abroad. l
give the thing five years to expand, and
then we shall hear no more of the surplus
in the treasury from sugar duties, for
there will be no import on which to levy q
tax
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
In the Family Circle

''Pa, is lambkin little lamb?'
eyes, my boy"
and a manikin is little mani"
"lep."
"We'], I suppose the forty winks you
take every night after supper is napkin,
isn't it p
well, do you suppose that if l gave
you lickin' it would be little l.ckt'
And the boy waited not, for he was a
wise child and bad met his father before
-Harpe7's BazQr.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16

Moody says if he could go down to his
grave and have it honestly written above
it, 'He did what he could" he would
rather have it than monument of gold
rearhing to Heaven. Do all the good you
can, to all the people you can, as long as
you can.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16

!. San Francisco gets about $50 year
from those Of its saloons which pay their
liscance fees to the city and not to the
police force. That yields the city rev
enue of about $4,000 year from the
grogshops; and the people of the city pay
the grogshops about Sis, 900, coo year for
liquor. which costs in damages Of fire,
crime, sickness. insanity, lost time and
accidents about as much more. How much
better it would pay the city to maintain all
the 5000 rnmsellers in first. class hotels,
allowing them SO day each for their
maintenance. The city could stand all
that and prosper If its grogshops were
shut up.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
A Lesson Of Gratitude

Agentleman, making inquiries in Russia
about the method of catching bears in that
country, was told that to entrap them a
pit was dug several feet deep, and after
covering it over with turf, leaves, ETC.,
some food was placed on the top The
bear, tempted by the bait, easily fell into
the snare. But" he added, 'sif four or
i've happen to get in together they will all
get out again.
How is that2' asked the gentleman.
"They form a sort of ladder by stepping
on each others shoulders, and thus make
their escape"
"But how does the bottom one get ous2"
''Ah these bears, though not possessed
of mind and soul, such rs God has given
US, yet feel gratitude; and they won't for
get the one who has been the chief means
Of procuring their liberty. scampering
off, they fetch the branch of tree, which
they let down to their brother, enabling
him to lin them in the freedom in which
they rejoice
Sensible bears, we should say, are better
than some people that we hear about, who
never help any body but themselves Our
Dumb animals.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16

Flipper-"Aren't you afraid, old fellow,
that your relatives will try to break your
will when you are deadf" Supple-..No
danger, my boy. My will was broken
long ago-by my wife"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16

A few days ago in Hoosic, N. Y, Albert
Bradt went with two companions to
Farners' Inn, taking his son Byron, nine
year-oid lad, along with them. Arriving
at the inn tie men soon became reckles s
with drink and thought itsport to dose the
lad with liquor. 1t was great fun TO see
him s.agger about the bsrroom and act
ike a miniature drunken an. Finally
the boy WIS made so drunk that his fathsr
fearing he would die, called physician.
but the doctor could not save his life and
the lad died from the effects of the bad
whisky that he had been induced to drink
by his own father.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-16
Is the Earth in Danger from the Drill ?

Prof Joseph F. Jones answers, in re.
cent issue Of the Popular Science Monthlu
the question, "1s it safe to drill the earth
too much?' The professor assumes the
earth to be hollow sphere filled with 8
gaseous substance, called by US patura
gas, and he thinks that tapping these
reservoirs will cause disastrous ex plosions
resulting from the lighted gas coming in
contact with that which is escaping He
compares the earth to balloon foated and
kept distended by the gas in the interior
which, if exhausted, will cause the crust
to collapse, affect the motion of the earth
in its orbit, cause it to lose it's plac- among
the heavenly bodies. and fall in pieces.
Another writer thinks that drilling
should be prohibited by stringent laws
He, too, thinks there is a possibi llty of an
explosion, though from another cause.
Should such disaster occur, ''tbe coun.
try along the gas belt from Toledo through
Ohio, Indiana ard Kentucky will be- ripped
up to depth of 1900 feet or 1900 feet, and
Topped over like a pancake, leaving a
chasm through which the waters of Lake
Erie will come down. filing the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys and plotting them out
forever"
Still another theorist has investigated
the gas wells with telephones and delicate
thermometers, and he announces startling
discoveries. He distinguished sounds like
the boiling of rocks, and estimated that
mile and one-half or SO beneath the Ohio
and Indiana gas field the temperature of
the earth is 300 degrees.
The scientist says an immense cavity
exists, and that here the gas is stored !,
that mile below the bottom of the cavity
is mas of roaring, seething flame. which
is gradually eating into the rock fl ,or OF
the cavern and thinning it. Eventually
the flames will reach the gas, and ter
Iible explosion will ensue.
Secretary Noble has written long lettf r
10 Gen. Faircbild, chairman of the Chern-
kee Commission, in which he virtually
serves notice on the cattlemen who have
leased from the Indians lands within what
is known as the Cherokee outles that they
must vacate the lands with their property
on or before the 1st of June next, this date
being fixed in ordsr that they may escape
without injury or suffering to their cattle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
THE ATLANTIC LOOMS UP.
il Is Making Efforts to Capture Baltimore
and the Athletics.

lt 10 Making Efforts to Capture Baltimore
and the Athletics,
rsPEctAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.!
NEW YORK, December 2O.-The Atlantic As
.sociatlon magnstes are having their innings
and unless all signs fail they will emerge from
the contest with a large score to their credit
The reinforcement of Baltimore seems to have
put new life into the organization, and Billy
Barnie, one of the committee to select new
cities. is working industriously and it is conf
IDENTIFY expected that affairs will be in such
shape as to make the Atlantic Association
probably the strongest Of the minor
League organizations. On Thursday an
important conference was held at the
Office of President Shoemaker, of
the Newark club, in that city. There were
present Manager Barnie, of the Baltimore
club; Manager Burnham, of New Haven;
Manager Trott of the Newark club; President
Secretary Brsden. Of the Atlantic Association,
and President Shoemaker. Each member pre-
scented his views fully regarding the situation,
and several plans Of organization we're suggest
ed. The one that carried the greatest weight
and for which every effort will be made toward
bringing TO a successful issue is to have the
Athletics, Baltimore, Washington, probably
and Newark form a western circuit and Proyi-
dence, New Haven. Worcester and Boston an
eastern circuit This would throw out Lowell
and Hartford, present members Of the assOcia-
zion.
To-day by appointment Treasurer Whitaker,
of the Athletic club Of Philadelphia. met Man
ayers Barnie and TrOtt at the Astor House, in
this city. The trio talked over the situation,
and while it is understood that Treasurer Whit
taker did not make anY positive declaration, he
said it was 4 matter which he should seriously
consider.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21

Alto, but the track was muddy, Marvin said
she could make quarter in so seconds or
faster and Mr.. Bonner told him he would give
him 81 900 when she made the quarter in 80
seconds and 5000 when she beat Johnston's
pacing record of 2s061z. Marvin says Sunol
can do it
The entries for the celebrated Sheffield, En-
gland, Christmas handicap are very large A
number of Americans are entered. The dis
tance is 30l yards, and the well-kdown Queens
Grounds is where the event will take places
@. Grant, Edinburgh, is the virtual scratch
man, with Tx yards start, The actual dis
tance be will run is l2SK yards. Harry
Hutchins, who was once considered the fastest
runner of the world, is given 7S1< yards. Harry
Bethune. of America, 7sA yards. H M. John
son. America. 79 yards. Other Americans are
E. Skinner, so yards: E. Donovan 8ON yards;
George Smith, S01z yards and w. Howe. SO1S
yards Thomas Burrows. England, who holds
the worlds record of As feet inches for run
ming hop, step and jump, has S2Z yards. The
limit of the handicaps IS given to A. William
son, who is 40 years old. His start is 81 yards,
which is exactly sH yards ahead of the scratch
man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
MAY FIGHT TOMORROW.
Arrangements for the Big Battle Between
Gn.aIhh ard Gln rrfr

Arrangements for the Big Battle Between
Smith and Slaviu.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH..
NEW YORK, December 20.-The following
cablegran was received at the Office of the
Police Gazette to-day:
'The sporting drums are doing brisk business
because Of the anticipated Slavin-Smith fight
for 5000 and the championship, but one-half
of those looking for tips will be hoodwinked, as
the arrangements to bring of the meeting be-
tween Australia's and England's champions
are to be carried out in manner similar to that
adopted by the managers of Smith and Kilrain
when they fought for $4,000 and the Police
Gazette champion belt
"Slazin and the Australian party will leave
quietly for their destination in France either
tonight or tomorrow. Smith and party leave
tomorrow. Nobility and the Pelican Club
members leave tomorrow night. Slayin is in
first-class condition. Prospects of fight. Bet
ting 100 to 80; Smith favorite."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
THE BIG RACE.
Herty Arrives, and Thinks 1t Will be n
Desperate Struggle.

AeFty Arr1Tess and Trunks IL VIII De u
Desperate Struggle.
The pedestrians have begun to arrive to con-
test in the big 72-hour race which starts at the
London Theater on Monday. Daniel ]. Herty,
the champion 142-hour pedestrian, arrived in the
city yesterday. He was looking extremely well,
and stated that the race will undoubtedly be a
hot" one
IAN of us, )" he said, "have been training for
1t because the money prizes are more certain
than any of the other Christmas races. don't
want to say that l can win, but I'll try, and I'll
give the man or men who beat me to understand
that there has been a race. Cartwright told me
that he'll be here to start and he is running ex-
tremely well
Gus Guerrero wired Manager Davis from
Cleveland last evening that he and his trainer,
Happy" Jack Smith, will be here to-day
Hegelman, Connors and Golden left New York
last evening. Golden says he is in better con-
ditiOn than he expected to be. and will start.
He feels confident of finishing among the first
Eve. Noremac will leave Philadelphia this
morning accompanied by Spicer, the English
man who came over with Littlewood. The bal
ance of the contestants are all expected here
this evening. Altogether there will be about
IA starters, and the list certainly includes some
Of the best long distance runners in the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
MORE SURPRISES PROMISED.
IL is Said That Something WIN Drop on the

Ii is Said That Something WIN Drop on the
Brotherhood Shortly.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.I
NEW YORK, December N.-The papers in
the suit against John Ward by the New York
club have not been filed as yet, and they will
probably not be until next week. President
Day has been to Holyoke to see Mickey Welch,
and for that reason has had no time to sign the
papers In the meantime Ward has prepared
himself for the proceedings in court He says
that the counsel for the New York club are
very slow in their movements.
Mr.. Day saw Welch and had talk with him,
but the outcome was not made known. Mr. Day
seemed hopeful that he would get the smiling
pitcher again. There will be surprise among
the New York players in day or two, and in q
way that they least expect. Itis understood
that the Brotherhood had an agent at Holyoke
at the same time that Mr.. Day was there.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
Winners nj Elizabeth.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE DIsPATc

NEW YORK, December 0-The races at
Elizabeth to-day resulted s9oilows:
First race, seven-eighths OF mile-Count Luna
first Amos Second. Bill Barnes third. Time, 1859.
Betting: Count Luna to ., Amos to place.
Second race, 1ve-eighths Of mile-Watch Me
first SpaldinR second, Thad Rowe third. Time,
IOs. Betting: Watch Me to /, Spalding to 3
place. ---
first Folsom second. Ralph Black third. Time,
1:23. Betting; Iceberg to !, Folsom to place.
Fourth race. seven-eiglIths of = mile -Elkton
1875. Betting: ElktOn to s Theodosfus to
place.
jim Gates second, San Jose third. No time taken.
Betting: Sophist to !. Jim Gates TO place.
Sixth race, seyen-eighths of nile-Refund first,
Vigilant second. Alva third No time taken.
Betting: Refund to6 Vigilant to place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
Rontan Stncl.n
Has Relatives in Buffalo.

Mrs. N. Donnelly, middle-sged widow,
who was picked up on the street somewhere
in the vicinity of the MOnongahela House,
on the day of the fire, and taken to the
Homeopathic Hospital, is still at that in
stitution in an ineurable condition. She
has no home, and the only friend she has
spoken offs Mrs. Frank Tracey, her cousin,
of Buffalo, who is quite well. l.to-do. Mrs.
Donnelly desires to be sent to her cousins
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
A Big stud for Sale.

NASHVILLE TENN, December 20.-The
Belle Meade Stud will be sold April "a and Is
next for division, Judge Howell E. Jackson de-
string to retire. General W. H. jackson and
John Harding, the other partners, will be bid
ders at the sale; will buy in several of the stall
lions and mares and continue the breeding
business The stations to be sold include
Luke Blackburn, Iroquois. Enquirer, Bramble
and Great Tom. The yearlings will be sold at
the same time
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
CHICAGO OBJECTED.
That's the Alleged Reason That There Was
no AmaIgamntiOn.

That'a the Alleged Reason That There Was
no AmalgamntiOn.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DJsPArcH.l
LOUISVILLE, December 20-The recent visit
Of Won der Abe 30 New York, it is understood
here, was not to obtain admission Of his own
club to the Brotherhood, butt see il negotia-
tons for the union with the Association could
not be revived. 1t is understood here that the
two ORGANIZATIONS would have united but for
one club that one being Chicago. No special
reason was assigned. but it is apparent that the
club in that city is depending chiefly upon the
Association for the players, and number have
already been signed
Should the Brotherhood and the Association
combine, Chicago would necessarily have to
relinouish her hold on the players signed from
the latter organization. aud for that reason
she made q vigorous fight against the plan.
The Association Finance Committee, consist
ing OF Won der Abe and Whitaker, of Phila-
ieiphia are new investigating the financial
standing Of each city applyingIor membership
IN the Association.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21

The Gospel Temperance Union will hold
its regular meeting at Curry University
Hall tomorrow evening. A. NJ. Brown will
preside. The meeting will be of special in
terest, as the fifteenth anniversary of the be-
ginning of the women's crusade in Ohio will
be observed. A cordial invitation to be
present is extended to everybody.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT STRIKE.
It Continues, With no New Phase-specIal
Police Hired by the Company.

The condition of the carbon settlers strike
is unchanged, pending the conference to be
held between the company and the labor
committee. 1t was said yesterday that Mr..
Herman Westinghouse was in the city and
that meeting would be arranged for on
Monday.
1t is claimed that the company has %
special officers employed by the Chief of
Police, but paid by them, who keep the
strikers under constant surveillance.
Yesterday the company had applications
for more men than it could employ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
MAILER IN FORM.
he Refuses co Lenve the BrotherhoOd for
the Old LenEue.

the Old Leugue.
YoUNGsTowE, O., December 2O.-Manager
Gus Schmelz, of the Cleveland League
ieam, accompanied by Charley zim-
herman, slipped in here quietly last
hight and sent for Jimmy McAleer to meet
hem in a room in the Tod House. When Nc
Aleer responded they urged him to break his
sontract with the Brotherhood and sign a
league contract which they had prepared.
NcAleer refused, stating that he could not
indA would not break his obligation with the
Brotherhood. The price offered was way up,
Sat NcAleer refused to consider any offer
made, and the trip of the League representa-
ives was fruitless. They were accompanied by
Emmer, VINO yesterday signed with the
league. and though he iabored hard and earn
stiy with McAieer. was unable TO make any
muression
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
TryInr 70 Raise \ Chrirtms, Sake.

Inspector McAleese yesterday entered an
information against J. M. Simpson for lar
ceny, and he was held for court in default.
OF $500 bail by Judge Gfipp. Simpson is
accused of stealing box Of cigars from the
store OF Mrs. Mary Catline, on Grant street,
and he was arrested while trying to sell
them on the street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21

ESPECIAL TELEGRkMs TO THE DIsPArcH.i
MoRGANTowN-River6 feet and stationary.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer $50 at4P. N.
WARREE-River feet $40 inches and sta
tionary. Weather mild; light rain.
BRowNsvILLE-River 6 feet 2 inches and
stationary. Weather cloudy. Thermometer
$40 at6PM.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
Removed to Canada,

The venerable Brother Felix, of the Re
demptOrist Order, who has been for num-
Der of years at the pastoral residence of the
St. Philomena Church, on Liberty street,
has been removed to the monastery of
St. Patrick's congregation at Toronto,
Canada.