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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
Fletcher Harper Dead.

New YORK, May "a. = Fletcher
Harper, member Of the publishing
firm Of Harper & Brothers. and q son Of
Fletcher Harper, the youngest of the
original four brothers who established
the publishing house, died at his resi-.
tieii5e In this this city city, aged 62 years. Mr..
Harper had been in bad health for a
number Of years.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
Off FOR SOUTHEAST AFRICA.
An Expedition With Sir Francis De win
tor at Its Head.


Sir Francis DE Winton, Sir John VIII
loughby and Capts. Smith and Williams
have taken their departure from Lon
don for Southeast Africa, in the interest
Of the British East Africa company,
and it is expected that active results
will follow their arrival there.
II is stated that exceptional powers
have been granted by the government TO
Sir Francis comprising authority to take
any action that may seem to him best
calculated to conserve the interests Of
England in Africa and at the sametime
extend her sphere of influence.
1t is an open secret that this step has
been taken in Difference to the recon-
mendations and warnings of Mr.. Stan
ley, who has persistently contended
since his arrival here, that Germany's
activity was rapidly drawing to her the
influence in Africa that England was
losing by her apathy.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
NO ERROR IN THE WRIT.

The Supreme Courts Decision in the
Kemmler Electrocution Case.
WASHINGTON, May 24.--The supreme
court of the United States has denied
the application for writ of error in the
case of William Kemmler, under sem
tence of death by electricity in New
York Chief Justice Fuller delivered the
doeiSion
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
A Chiek yylth Plentv Of Feet.

WHEELING. w. Va, May ca few
days ago q hen belonging % William IL.
Thomas, who resides ON Double White
Oak, branch Of Tuppers creek, Matched
q chicken with four feet and a fifth just
appearing. The four feet are all well
developed, and the chicken Is looked
upon as q natural curiosity.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
CARPETS.

In this line my stock can not be exceed. |
will sell you beautiful Brussels Carpet ten per cent.
lower than sold before. All wool two and three
ply, Ingram Carpets also ten to fifteen per cent.
lower than sold before A new line of Art Squares,
Mattngs Rugs and OiIcloth,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
S2O,932,445
Is the River and HarbOP ApprO-
priatiOns Recommended.
The Purposes For Which the
Money is Wanted.

Almost $40, 900, 900 Were Asked For, but
the House Committee Cut 1t Down
Neagly One-Half-The Mississippi Comes
In For the Largest Appropriation, 49,
002, ,OOO-NationaI News.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
THE EGYPTIANS
Well Satisfied With the Pres.
ence of British Troops.
Apparently Afraid of Their
Own Government.

Sir Francis De winton at the Head Of
Party Now En- Route to Southeast Africa
I'm the Interest of the British East
Africa Company Free Trade in the
Congo Free State.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
CLOTHING.

A look at my Clothing Department will convince
you that | can suit you. Mems, Youths and Chill
dren's Clothing in light and medium weight, and
all the summer Styles. My prices guaranteed to be
the lowest
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24

DRY GOODS.

Anything in this line, beautiful Satines, Chal-
lies, White Goods in Stripe and Cross bar, Laces,
Musns and Ginghams. All the summer styles and
lowest prices.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TARIFF BILL.

by Such Action the Senate Finance Conn
mittee Hopes to Facilitate Matters.
WASHINGTON, May 24.--It is the pres
ent intention of members of the senate
finance committee to report substitute
for the Mckinley tariff bill when their
consideration of that measure shall have
been completed. This course is deemed
to be better than to report the bill as it
came from the house with amendments.
For, when 1t goes into conference, there
will be but one question to settle instead
of myriad of differences on points in
detail. This was the course pursued
with the tariff bill of 1888, and it was
found to result in saving of time The
finance committee will endeavor to
maintain its determination not to give
oral hearings to any interested parties
but it was reported to-day that import
ers of several cities to the number of
1000 will come to washington next week
demanding to be heard. If any suc,'
number, or even smaller one, appears
In body it is probable that the com
mittee will open its doors to the repre-
sentatives.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24
citation of the Ohio Vetarans of the
Mexican War and the National associa-
ton respectively.
THE STAR spANeLED BANNER.
Favorable Report on the Bill to Prevent
Its Dissertation.

Favorable Report ON the Bill to Prevent
Its Dissertation.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-Judge Thomp-
son, of Ohio, from the house committee
ON Judiciary, to whom was referred the
bill to prevent the Dissertation of the
United States flag, has reported as fol-
lows:
The flag of our country is the symbol
of our National existence, power and
sovereignty. 1t is the emblem Of freedom
and equality and representative of the
glory Of the American name. 1t is q re-
minder of American fortitude, courage
and heroism and Of the suffering and the
sacrifices on land and sea which have
for the preservation of the country it
represents. It is the shield and pro-
lection of the citizen at home and abroad,
and should be honored and reverenced
by every American who is lover Of his
sacred, and to deface, disfgure or pros
should be held to be u crime against the
nation, and be punished as such.
We therefore favor the proposition Iof
OAlC DAJ OAACA III liCl
thereof the following substitute and
recommend its passage:
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States,
in congress assembled, that any person
or@persons who shall use the National
flag, either by printing, painting or af-
fixing on said flag, or otherwise attach
ing to the same, any advertisement for
public display, or private gain, shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor, and on conyic-
ton thereof in the district court of the
United States, shall be fined in any sum
not exceeding $50, or imprisoned not less
than thirty days, or both, at the discre-
ton of the court.
Flag-Raising at the Randall school.
There was hag-raising Thursday on
the Randall school, one of the largest Of
the common schools of the district. The
scholars and teachers raised the funds.
The principal corps of teachers and
pupils assembled on the sidewalk; at a
given signal the flag was raised, and as
it was unfurled to the breeze nearly
1000 young voices greeted the National
flag with loud cheers, and then sang an
appropriate National air Many of the
children's parents and friends were pres
ent to witness the flag-raising. The flag
is nine by sixteen feet, with stars to
represent the forty-two states of the
Union.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24

Ladies' Trimmed Hats, Ladies Untrmmed
Hats, Mems Fur and Wool Hats, Mems Straw
Hats, Childrens Straw Hats.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
Dutch Cure For Laziuess,

During morning walk merchant who
was detained by business in Amsterdam
came to group of men who were standing
round we'll. into which strongly buill
man had just been let down A pipe,
whose mouth was at the top of the Well,
had been opened and stream of WAFER
from it was flowing down into the we'll
and beginning gradually to Gil it. The
fellow had quite enough to do if he did
not want to be drowned, to keep the water
out By means of pump which was at the
bottom of the we'll. The merchant, pity
ing the man, asked for an explanation of
what seemed heartless, cruel JOKE.
Sir replied an old man standing near,
that man is healthy and strong; | have
myself offered him work twenty times,
nevertheless he always allows laziness to
get the better OF him ; and will make any
excuse to beg his bread from door to door,
he might easily earn it himself by work if
he liked. We are now trying to make him
feel that he Can work. If he uses the
strength which is in his arms he will be
saved, if he let them hang idle he will be
drowned. But look" continued the old
Dutchman, as he went to the edge of the
we'll, 1.-The fellow finds out that he has got
muscles in an hour we shall let him out
with better resolutions for the future"
Such was the case and the cure was effect
ual.-Sslected
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
Young Man, Be Square,

It is sad day in the life of young
man when he decides that there is an
easier way to obtain money and goods than
by honestly working for them. 1t is just
such decisions as that that fills the jails
and warehouses; and keep the ranks of the
great army of deadbeats full to overflow
ing. 1t is just such decisions that make q
young man pull his hat over his eyes and
dodge into doorway or school across the
street for fear of meeting man to whom
he owes an honest debt which he has de-
iberately decided never to pay.
Young man, what business have you to
go stalking down the street with that suit
of clothes ON, or that overcoat, or those
seven dollar shoes, or that Dunlap hat
None of them are yours, and you know it,
A fine looking specimen you would be ii
every merchant in town should collar you
and claim his own property. And yet It
would serve you right If they seized all
their property and left you to sneak home
with nothing but your own clothes, which
would probably consist of q heelless sock
and piccadilly collar, with possibly .
four-shilling scarf pin that was an heir
loom in the family, hence was paid for be-
fore You were born.
You haven't any right to smoke cigar
cites and put on style until you have
earned the right. Every dime you spend
belongs To somebody alse. and dollar that
ron actually earned and upon which NO
mortal has any sort OF claim would scare
you into fits. UGnsvsns Breeze.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
The Laugh.

There is no laughter so musical, none SO
innocent, none SO evidently spontaneous as
that of little children. The grimest mis-
anthrope must admit its charm. As we
grow older, though we be still of hilarious
tendencies, there is no longer any music.
or only of the tongs. and tin kettle kind, in
our cachinnaticns. Some of us, and they,
perhaps, not the least genial, having real
lied how literally true is Schiller's Ernst
list das Leben," find difficulty in getting
out any vocal hilarity at all. We may be
laughing inwardlY, but the sound we are
capable OF emitting is the mere ghost of
what we could compass in earlier years
Others, again, carry their visibility with
them into extreme old age, lettering on
the verge of their final exit, they yet
laugh with the loudest. It is partly hered-
itary, this patrlarchal guffaw, for laugh
is sometimes handed down from father to
son, like nose or sneeze.-G eatlemen's
Magazine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
hints on Serving Fruits.

Very much OF the beauty of fruit de-
ponds upon the manner in which it is put
upon the table. To persons of refneme MT,
an esthetic service adds greatly to the en-
jo,ment of all kinds of food, certainly of
fruit. Apples ought to be well polished
with a clio h and piled in a high dish, yell
low and red together, with silver knife
at each plate. Steel knives ought never
to be used with fruit. since they produce
discoloration. Bananas ought to be heaped
with oranges or grapes in high dish of
porcelain or crystal.
Berries should be freshly arranged in q
large holder and served without sugar,
which draws out the juice and toughens
them. Each person can use cream and
sugar according to his own taste. From
clusters of grapes PICK out all that are un.
sound and unripe and lay them tenderly
upon bed of their own green leaves.
The various shades Of purple and trans
Iuscent green are lovely when arranged
together, OF with golden oranges cleaning
through the clusters. Grape sciss ors
are now frequently placed beside each
desert plate.
Melons should be kept on ice in cool
cellar few hours before using.-M.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04

Can it be home, child's home without
religion7 1t may be house beautiful,
enriched with art, knowledge, and music;
but without religion, without thoughts Of
God. without prayer, penitence, sweet
Sabbath, faith, love, and the seeking
after the life of holiness--it can not be a
home. This needs no argument. 1t needs
much emphatic repetition, and it needs
deep belief. All children are naturally
religious. They have wonder, awe, rev.
erence. trust, tenderness, the keenest
sense of sin and love. No learning"
comes so naturally to child as the learn
ing of God. The talk OF children about
God is as talk of wise men. There must
be religion if there is to be home. We,
who are asking that all education shall be
religious are, of all people, bound to see
that our children find their first faith,
their first prayer, their first thought of
God at home. When the schoolmaster
gets our boys he ought to find that there
is one elementary thing in their education
well begun--religion. To send boy or a
girl into the ''new world" of school
without prayer, faith, love, reverence,
and some experience toward God, is to
send those most precious to US into their
FIRST day In the world and in life as I'M
fitted for that world and for that life as
heather child g. s. Re1nev.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04

The price of rice has fallen very low
during the last few days Rice which sold
for Sc. 40 per barrel last week now brings
$3.4O. The question naturally arises, to
what or whom is this attributable? To
the producer himself. The moment the
market is glutted with product, the price
thereof must fall. Many rice planters we
understand are compelled under certain
circumstances to sell their rice at sacri-
fee. But the amount of rice made by
them If all threshed and shipped to New
Orleans would be insufficient to depress
the market. The rapid fall in the price of
rice is attributable to the thousands of bar
rels of that cereal, Improperly threshed
and cured, shipped to the city by large
>ica planters in the upper parishes who
cultivate their rice crops at cost of say
80 per barrel and are satisfied with profit
of 80 per cent thereon. We are informed
that in Calcasieu the cost of producing is
hardly $1.00 per barrel. In our old lands,
in Plaquemines, where the yield is very
unsatisfactory. the cost is about $3.50
While Calcasieu planter can sell his
rice at $3.50 and reap a large proft(150
per cent?, the small rice planters of this
parish, in selling hfsrice for So 90 much
higher price than his Calcasieu friend,
would make profit of only 40 per cent,
Why should our milIers of the Crescent
City pay for our rice 81 90, when Acadia
and Calcasieu can afford to sell their rice
for $500. Our rice planters must find
cheaper mode of making rice or they will
inevitably be driven to the wall. We cannot
possibly compete with our neighbyrs above
city. These are facts which cannot be
gainsaid. We reiterate that the rice pro-
ducers of upper parishes are the cause
OF the rapid fall in the price of rice this
year. and they can afford Pzaquemines
Protector. Ln
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
TWO SIDES OF LIFE.
FIRST.

TITS clean, and turn, and mend, and make,
Small garments to keep whole and neat;
IT'S stew, and fry. and boil, and bake,
Telnpers and stomachs to keep sweet.
There's nests to make so snug and warm
To rest the little tired limbs;
Small feet to guard from every harm.
To bear with child whims
A ceaseless round of patient toll
Of tiresome, unremitting care
OF children's neFer ceasing moil-
Each day is one long wear and tear
Of flesh and soul; impatient words,
Spoke oft in haste, yet scarcely said
Till they're repented of with tears;
These make, with many other things,
The women's hopes and fears.
SECOND.
Small feet to keep in narrow ways,
Sweet souls to guide from earth to heaven,
Inquirihg minds to battle In rays
Of light from Him whom God hath given
To cleanse this wayward world from sin.
A fellow creature help the while
We linger here, and mayhap win
A look, q touch, smile
To recollect in after years
For it is very sweet to know
That never any bitter tears
By act of ours were made to flow.
And thus we counterbalanc pain
By deeds like these the vict'ry's Won
And each may hope one day to hear:
Beloved, thy works well DONE
Lolita. Queenstown, Pa
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
NOTES.

Pecans will grow wherever the ordinary
htckories and oaks flourish. They have
borne cops at seven years.
The English fi'b 'rt will grow and ben,
here, Oh wherever praches do well. Thu
come into bearing early, and occupy con-
| parativcly little space
| A Texas grower says that at 10 years his
pecan trees averaged SIS to tbs Tree. Al
orchard of 100 trees would afford nice
income. On the gulf coast growers have
dug up and thrown away orange trees to
plant pecan trees Nearly all the large
nurseries are prepared to ell orders for
pecan trees
VI the American CHESTNUT we all know
something. But We do not know of tue
profits awaiting those who plant the im-
proved varieties and take care of the trees
as we do our orchards. 1t has been de-
monstrated that Japan ch sstnuts will bear
in New York and New Jersey, and that
the tree is hardy
All kinds of nut trees are profitable in
their natural habitat and some may prove
so out of their native home. The hickory
grows everywhere in the middle West,
and would be profitable for waste places
and road side planting, if every tree was
barren The shellbark hickory comes in
to bearing IN about 10 years, and is worth
more in the market than the aver age
peach, pear or almost any other fruit.
Mr. Parker Earle, of Ocean Springs
Mississippi, is reported to be- probably the
only farmer in the country ON whose es-
tate no whip is allowed to be owned or
used. Horses, mules and oxen work per-
fectly well without the lash, aud their
excellent condition convinces their huma ne
master that kindness is not alone duty,
but an economy
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
Lake Charles
LEGE.

At Lake Charles, La, is
a chartered institution, gov
erned by Board of Trustees
residing in Texas and Louis
lana. The city is on the
Southern Pacific Railroad,
217 miles west of New Or
leans, and 100 miles east of
Houston, and in one of the
most healthful portions of the
South. Two new and COM
modious buildings already oc-
cupy the College grounds of
l6 acres, and others are to be
erected. The College opens
its Preparatory and Academic
Departments Oct. l, 1890,
offering Classical, Scientific
English and Business courses
under tirst-class instructors.
1tprovides a cultivated Chris
tan home for young laa1es,
and until the young gentle
mems hall is built, secures
for them homes in carefully
selected families. This Col
lege aims to be thoroughly
Christian, but not sectarian,
and to offer the best opportu-
mites for higher education.
For further information and
Prospectus, address
Rev. HENRY L. HUBBELL, D. D.,
President. |
Care Prof KNApp IL n
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
Rotation in Office.
AN ANECDOTE OF THE LATE MR. HEND-
KICKS AND CONSUL HORTsMaNN.

AN ANECDOTE OF THE LATE MR.. HEND-
KICKS AND CONSUL HORTsMANN.
"Ju]ius Caesar was a consul, Napoleon
| the First was consul and am consul"
Thai is the way that certain man ex-
pressed his feelings on receiving from the
State Department at Washington papers
stamped with the official seal and announc>
ing his appointment as United S ates con-
sui at n little place on the Mediterranean
Within three or four years it was with
quite different feelings that he opened an
other official envelop from the State De-
partment, A new President had been
elected, and the letter contained the infor-
nation that new consul would soon
appear to take possession of 1.-The seal,
press, flag, coa!-of arms, the Revised
Statutes, the Statutes at Large. Wheaton's
Digest, and other property belonging to
the United States"
understood thing by men of all parties
that once In four years off GERS u no ara Ill
are to be turned out and fresh men put in
their places, is told by Mr. Hortsmann in
his Consular "reminiscences"
After the exciting election of 1876,
which resulted in the Inauguration as
President of Mr.. Hayes. Governor Hem
bricks, who had been Mr.. Tilden's asso-
ciate on the Democratic ticket, made trip
to Europe.
He visited Munich, and Mr.. Hortsmann,
then our consul at that point, showed him
the ''sights" of the city. The CONVERSE
ton happened to turn on the recent cleo
ton, and Mr.. Hendricks jokingly said
''Oh, well, the things over now; at any
rate, if I had been elected, you see, l
wouldn't have the pleasure of being in
Munich now, and going round with you
"No," replied the consul, ''and if you
had been elected | suppose should not
have been here to be showing you around
-Youth's Companion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-04
Country Roads.
VALUABLE BULLETIN FROM THE UNI
VERsITY OF TENNESSEE.

A VALUABLE BULLETIN FROM THE UNI
vERsTTY OF TENNESSEE.
Few things are of such vital importanc.
to community as the condition of it:
country roads. Probably no other one
thing outside of politics is Just now attrac
F. ting so much attention, or is being 20 seri-
ously considered. In recognition of this
fact the experiment station of the Upiver
sity of Tennessee, at Knoxville, has just
issued bulletin on the subject, which
was prepared by Prof. VIM. w. Carson.
The bulletin refers briefly to the large
annual loss occasioned by bad roads and to
the advanced values that would surely fol
low their improvement, and then proceeds
to discuss the matter as mechanical prob
lem, and shows by suitable tables the
effect produced on the traction by the
different grades and kinds of roads.
In one of the tables, it is shown for
different roads, how steep grade may be
descended without spending any of the
horses work in this needless and hurtful
way.
It. is assumed that horse can, in an i'm
mergercy, do double work for a short time
but that no more should be required of
him. In other words horse can properly
be required to draw for short time as
heavy load rs two horses should be re-
quired to draw regularly over road of
the same grade and condition. Different
horse owners will btless hold different
views as to whether horse can do more
or less than this without injury to him
self. But on this assumption the writer
shows that the grade, for any road, which
q fully loaded wagon can ascend, without
help, is the same that it Gao descend with
out loss of work and damage to the vehicle
or roadway. Hence he holds that this
grade, which is given for each kind of road
in the first table, is the steepest that
should ever be allowed in the country on
that kind OF road A grade, therefore,
which would be entirety proper on one
kind of road would BIZ highly lnjudicious
and extravagant on another kind.
An approximate estimate is made of the
amount of the horses work consumed in
the different ways, and methods of ecoDo-
MIXING suggested. 1t states, for example
that on a level dirt road more than 81 per
cent Of the work done by the horse is
spent in making attractions in the road
Itself.
The bulletin urges, in cases where
money cannot be had to put greater width |
in first-class condition, that all roads be
made as narrow as possible, and that all the |
money available be spent in improving
the narrow widths. And finally, the |
writer insists that good road cannot poss-
IDLY be made without road roller, and |
hat by far the best way to stop the fright |
full waste of labor and money that now
sakes place on the roads of the country is |
20 employ complete engineers to supervise
he roads and to make the road tax pay
able in money alone. This paper will be |
'ent to any one applying to the Expert
rent Station at Knoxville southern
Teacher.