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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
SeYaraI Historic Fans.

A fan belonging to a New York lady was
originally given by Napoleon to Josephine
and then by the empress to Mime. Campau.
from whom it passed to its present owner
Of other beautiful fans owned by fortu
nate New York ladies, one painted BY De
taille is spirited picture of horses taking
the fence at jerome park; another, by the
painter Bora, infinitely depicts christen-
ing scene before Spanish alcalde, while 3
third shows a charming skating scene in
the Bots de Boulogne, painted by Laitte
The fan which Mrs. Levi P. Morton car
ried on the night of the Centennial ball is
an heirloom-exquisitely carved ivory
sticks and charming water color painting
on white silk.-New York World
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
The World Is Not as Bad as it Is Painted.

The World Is Not as Bad as it Is Painted.
A fat man who saw a cripple beggar at
the corner of an uptown street some time
ago, put his hand in his pocket, took out
a coin, said, "There's q nickle for you"
and hurried along. When the cripple
looked at the gift he found it to be an old
time SIS gold piece, but could not run after
the giver to tell him of his mistake. After
the fat man had been at home some time
he missed his coin, and while fambling
in his pockets to find it, bethought him
that he might have unbeknowingly handed
it to the mendicant; but when he went
back to the corner he could see nobody
there Upon returning toward his house
he saw hoobling along near his door the
cripple, who soon said: 'You made 8
MISTAKE, sir, for this is not pickle, but
gold piece!" The fat man took the coin
in his hand, held it for a moment, looked
at the hoary face before him, and said ::
'"Tis yours, for your honesty! y 1t was
gratefully accepted. The giver then
entered his house happy and thinking
well of mankind, while the receiver stood
dumbfounded, yet still more happy and
thinking well of mankind. The cripple
still sits at the corner where he formerly
stood, not now as beggar, but as the
keeper of news stand which he estab
lished with the capital thus Unexpectedly
acquired from the fat man, who is now
one of his customers.-Neso York Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15

The quantity of meat thrown overheard
into the Atlantic is very great. Out of 1Se
cargoes of animals sent to British ports in
one year from Canada, consisting of 81, O9s
head of cattle, 81 1889 sheep and IS pigs, 65s
cattle, 1,17O sheppard l pig were consigned
to the deep during the voyage. or the 43s
cargoes exported from the United States
to this country, comprising 13s,661 head Of
cattle, 30,317 sheep and II pigs, $50 of the
first and S57 of the second class of this
live stock were thrown overheard during
the voyage, thus numbering 1855 animals
which were pitched into the sea for the
year-London Letter.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
A Hint to Farmers.

The Mark Lane Express gives an &C
count, by an agricuIturist in Finland, M.
Adolph Torngren, of curious way OF
making hay which is very generally
adopted by the Films. Poor men who
own no meadows have long been &C
customed to cut what grass they can find
IN the forest glades and other waste lands.
Owing to the lack of roads and farmsteads
The hay was stuffed among the branches
of neighboring trees to await the winter
frosts and snow, when it could easily be
carried on sledges. After wet season
some farmers noticed that this hay was
actually better in quality than that which
they themselves had made from much
better grass. The wild crop, so to call it,
had dried much better in the tree branches
exposed to free circulation of air than
the rich heritage which had lain long on
the sodden ground. Hence it occurred to
them to make temporary trees upon which
their own crops might be dried. This ex-
pertinent was attended by such success
That the plan has been widely initiated.
and bids fair entirely to supplant the old
fashioned methods.
After the moving is done number OF
poles about ten feet in length, and pro-
vided with long traverse pegs, are set up
at intervals, and the grass is loosely
heaped upon them. The result is said to
be excellent. Even in wet weather, only
small portion forming the outside OF the
pile is discolored, while the inner portions,
exposed to the air beneath and protected
from the rain above, are dried in perfect
condition. Moving can be carried on in
spite of wind and rain, and when once the
grass is placed upon the drying poles it
may be left without fear of serious damage
until the weather changes. In climate
like ours it might be well worth Wills to
inquire further into this method of saving
the hav
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
precOcity.

Two scions of we'll known Detroit
house were recently locked up in a room
by way of punishment. In their eagerness
to escape they adopted heroic measures.
Piling dresses, bonnets and bed clothes in
the middle of the floor, they started bon
fire that brought out the fire department
and gave it plenty of work, too. The little
rascals went to bed that night as warm as
though. they had not escaped from the
burning room. Detroit News.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
a Touching Incident.

4 little boy came to city missionary,
and holding out dirty and well. worn DIT
of printed paper, said, Please, sir, tather
sent ME to get clean paper like that.
Taking it from his hand, the missionary
nnfoldsd it, and found it was page con-
tanning that beautiful hymn of which tne
first stanZa is as follows
Just as am without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed TOR me,
And that Thou bid st me come to Ihee'
Lamb Of God, come! ;., L.
The missionary looked down with in
terest into the face earnestly up
turned to him, and asked the little BOY
uhere he got it, and why he wanted
clean one. .,,-...,.
I'VE found it, SIR said he, Gin sister
n,clst after she died: and she used &c
Sing it all the time when she was SICK,
snd loved 1t so much that father wanteG
to get clean one to put in frame ana
hang up. Won't you give US eieah one
SIR" , =,
- h.d been cast upon the air, like talleI
losf hv Christian hands, humbly hoping
to do some possible good. In some ht't
mission Sanday-school, probably, TINS
NOR girl had thoughtlessly received IL
81 p G. to find in it, we hope, thu
gospel of her salvation. -heiected.
lady said she had hard work to e.
her druggist to keep DR.. Bulls "oli
Destroyers, as he was anxious TO Sc
another kind. But she made him get tne'
for her. Go mother and do likewise
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
THE CHILDREN's CRUSADE.

BY MARGARET J. PRESTON.
You have read the marvellous story
of what happened so long ago,
Away in the Rhenish country,
In sight of the Alpine snow
How thousands of little children,
With scallop and staff in hand,
Like Peter the Hermit's pilgrims,
Set forth for the Holy Land?
With wonder they saw their fathers,
For many and many day,
From hamlet and town and castle,
March to the East away,
They had watched while they grit their armor,
And followed with sword and lance,
AS Godfrey de Bouillon led them
Through the vineyards of sunny France,
By mountain and sea and forest,
Till, over the stormy wave,
With weeping. they hailed the border
of the land they had come to save.
And why do they go ~ they questioned
OF the mothers, who sobbing said,
They go to wrest from the pagan
The tomb where our Lord lay dead.
And the thought In their young hearts kindieo'
let us do as our fathers do;
Let us wear the cross on our shoulder,
And help In the conquest too ~
| And so. on their strange, wild mission,
| AS the legend tells, they went;
But He who could never lead them
In the way He had not sent.
Lifted them up In His pity
| misguided, and yet His OWN,
| And, instead of the tomb they sought FOR,
Sent them to find His throne.
Now what Is the tender lesson
Wrapped up in the story so'
And what can we learn from the children
Who persisted SO long ago'
For the sepulchre's sake. where only
Three days the Redeemer lay,
They were willing to face such peril
AS wasted their lives away.
For temple that Is eternal,
Where the living stones are piled
Each stone of the wondrous building
The soul of pagan child
Are there ten thousand children
Willing to wear Alright.
For Christ and His cause and kingdom,
The badge Of the Red Cross knight
Willing with prayers and offerings
To gather in one strong band,
And rescue the world, and make 1t.
Henceforward, all holy land:
-Chin.es for LhuFch Children
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
How to Tell Age.

There is good deal of amusement in
the following table. 1t will enable you to
tell any ones age if under Ga. Hand it to
the one whose age you desire: with the re
quest that he or she tell you in which
column or columns the age is contained
Then add together the figures at the top
of the columns in which the age is found,
and YOU have the secret. Suppose the
age to be q, in the first, third and htth
columns you will find II add the first hg-
Ioc thraa nnl nIlnS
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15

chair by the west window, there was a
soft step behind her, quick kiss on the
top Of the head, and note dropped into
her lap, and the note said:
81 will never again kill any creature for
sport ROBERT ANDERSON CRAIG"
And Robert Anderson Craig is boy
who will keep his word -Hester ,Stuo t,
in COngregntl0tuliN.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
A Cat Brings D:phtheria.
AN RNTIRE FAMILY AFFLICTED WITH THE
DISEASE AND THREE DIE OF 1T.

The ia ally of Robert Paul, at Middle
ton, Wisconsin, has been afflicted by diph-
liberia, which was brought into the house
in singular manner. About four weeks
age, stray cat came to their home and
one of the children handled and played
with it. Although it was noticed at the
time that he discharged at the mouth ano
nose, nothing was thought of it, until, soon
after, when the little boy was taken down
with black Giphtheria of the most maig-.
nant kind that the doctor said he had
caught from the cat. The boy oied; then
a second son took the disease and died
Then the father, mother and daughter
were also stricken down and recovered.
Allen, the only remaining son and support
of his parents cared for them all through
their terrible sickness, holding one of the
boys when dying and preparing them for
their last resting place with his own hands.
When the others were recovering he was
taken down and ed.-Erchange.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
Handy Lamp Shade.

If you have a common lamp on your
desk you can make cheap shade for it by
bending piece of wire half way around
che brass beneath the wick screw, leaving
the other end long enough to bend up
straight a little clear of the globe; on this
end fasten piece of pasteboard by run
ming the wire through two holes in it. like
a stitch-Cor. Writer.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
THE ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT
l. q q
Opeiousas,
A RHYME.


Written for 7 he American.
Question not the meaning of a poets rhyme,
lie NAV have written Just 10 while away MS
time,
Or nerchance by higher impulse led
His fancy leads him on where seraphS treau'
W hatever be the cause that moves the pen 10
write
Over that cause he has no control or might.
,rhe willing servant of an inspiration grand
II g thinks it's thoughts and writes them With
his hand.
The reason why. he does not know himself
lie only knows he does not write Tor peh'
80 highten his and other hearts OF pain
Is all the pay his seraph seeks to gain
lille Bi,skleu. Atchisco, Kan.
naar Editor. send this humh verse;
trhere have been better, - there may DC
worse)
And make this brief request, although I've scarce
The face to ask it.
If good it ODDS, | simply beg, BE kind;'
If it has no worth nor merit, let 1t find
THAT resting place of others Of its kind,
The waste basket
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
A Surprise.

Wife Ito husband who had been absent
during the night)-I am ever SO glad you
left your pistol with me, darling: A bur
glar was here last night and | surprised
him.
Husband-You brave little womanl Did
you shoot it at him2
mo, threw it at him. "-Detroit Free
n->.-
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
Gods Care of the United States.

1t is remarkable how many crooked
things are in the providence of God being
made straight. Abont thirty years ago
our national affairs were as crooked as de-
PRAYED American politics and bad men and
Satan could make them. From the top of
Maine to the foot of Florida the nation was
red with wrath. 1t was wrangle and light
all the way through, and one of the mild
est things the North and South promised
each other was assassination. Daring this
summer | have travelled through New
York and Ohio and Illinois and Indiana
and Minnesota and Kansas and Nebraska
and Missouri and Texas and Louisiana and
Georgia and North and South Carolina and
Virginia and Pennsylvania, and | have
shaken hands with tens of thousands of
people and talked with men of all sections
and degrees, and have to tell you it is all
peace, and in all the States of the Union
lou could not now marshal a military COM
pany of one hundred soldiers to fight
against the United States government I'M
less you got your men out of the PEN
itentiary. Did the corrupt and gangrened
political parties do this work OF
rectifcation and pacifcatlon7 No! 1t
was by divine interposition that the crook
ed has made straight.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15

Rough on John L. nevertheless AS
was walking along Park FsS the other
day 1 saw picture-vendsr ~n9 was of fnd
.Tobn l.. Sullivan. Wasn't tkst ridicu-
Ions combination Clanks-"i don't
think 80, Both of them make q business
of knocking tho devil out OF people,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-11-15
A Practical Believer.

Troubled Housekeeper-Wha can we do
to keep our servants9
Fair Reformer-Do you not believe in the
higher education of wolnenS
L. H.-Certainly. | pay the best wages
because do believe in the hire education
of women.-Pittsburg Bulletin
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

out of sight. Johnv shouted the old
man. Not a sound In response.
Jawhnr In a louder tone. John y
sharp and decisive, and the old man
began muttering In an angry manner.
John crawled out from under the
front stoop, and when his father asked
why he didn't answer before replied,
i didn't hear you the first two times.
That's exactly like our congressman.
When they are called on they fail to
hear until an angry muttering reaches
their ears, and then some lively moves
are made. The people Of Kansas are
tired of the manner in which the in
terests of the state have been neglect
ed for politics and are only waiting a
good excuse to get back at the con-
gressmen."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

business when milk and butter Il
high, and going cut of the business
when 1t is low. The only way tC
make money from the dairy is to start
out with the expectation of sticking
right TO the dairy business through
thick and thin for number of years.
It may be there are times Of the year
when milk and butter will be pro-
duced at q loss, and II may be that
some years 1t will be produced at a
loss throughout the entire year but 1t
10 the same in every other line Of busi-
ness. There is no business that has a
profit at all times of the year and all
years, but the man that goes into bust
ness let 1t be of any nature, and sticks
faithfully to 1t is very like to come
out ahead. We can find farmers who
are continually changing first from
one thing then TO another, first pro-
ducing beef, then butter, then milk,
then something else, and never make
a success of anything. The only way
to come out ahead is, first decide for
what you want your COWS. If max
ing butter, get butter breed of cows,
feed and care for them the very best
you can at all times of the year. If
you wish to sell milk, get a breed
which produces large quantities of
milk, and stick right to this breed,
and the man that studies his business
so as to produce milk or butter at a
profit during the lowest prices is the
man that is going to make the largest
profit when milk or butter advances
in prices.
Let US not be discouraged by the
few weeks of low prices, but stick
faithfully to business, learning to pro-
duce the most and best milk at the
lowest possible cost and we are sure
to come out ahead in the long run.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

One minute with poverty staring
him in the face, the next q rich man
for life. This was the actual expert
ence of S. P. Armstrong, who died
the other day of heart disease at But
Ter, Pa. He had invested all his funds
in sinking a we'll in the Thorn creek
oil region of Pennsylvania. 1t was
thought TO be dry, and as a sort of
farewell protest against his i'll luck
the explorer fired q torpedo in its
depths. Immediately after the explo-
sion the well began to flow at tre-
mendous rate, a volume of oil being
lifted into the air to a height of at
least 100 feet. Not having expected q
big well no connects had been made
to the tanks, and the oil flowed on the
ground, completely deluging the ell
tire neighborhood. After several
hours the oil was turned into tanks
with great personal risk TO the work
men, and the first days production
was 10000 barrels, the largest well
ever opened in the oil country. 1t
was a mine of wealth to Mr.. Arm
strong and developed large scope Of
rich territory.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

Kansas City Times.

Kansas papers are reprintiDg an ar.
ticle from an Illinois writer who says
that Kansas wheat has taken rank
with the very best for milling purposes.
The writer quotes from other authoi-
ties the statement that hard wheat has
increasd so largely in proportion that
the Kansas grain is now favored by
millers more than any other winter
grade.
As the Times investigations were
first to show, the quality of Kansas
wheat this year is remarkable.
Great quantities of it are going to the
millers of Minnesota who will use it
on equal terms with the northwestern
spring wheat.
Kansas farmers are laboring to
raise the quality of their wheat.
Soil and climate on the prairies favor
their efforts. Kansas hard wheat is
moving to the top in millers' estima.
ton. TO be graded on its merits and
sold to competitive buyers, it must be
freed from dependence upon one mar
ket and that one unfriendly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
A BADLY MIXED POLITICAL POT.

A BADLY MIXED POLITICAL POT.
Colonel Nelson II. Acres, Of Leaven-
worth, ex- United States internal reve.
nue. collector for Kansas, said to a
Kansas City Globe reporter the other
day:
1.-THE political pot in Kansas con-
tains q mixture to which q cocktail
can't bold candle. Everybody seems
to have different object In view and
definite prediction is at this time ra-
ther foolish. One thing is sure, il a
combine were made against the re-
publieans this fall q clean sweep
would be made and the republicans
would receive q fearful drubbiDg.
A consolidation Of the forces In the
ranks Of,the democrats, resubmissiOn-
ists and farmers alliance people and
the work would be done. I don't an
ticipate any such combine, for conccs-
sions will not be made. Should such
be the case, however, there are many
men who are as capable Of filling the
Offices as the present incumbents aud
would answer to the call of the new
party. Let me tell you little story.
A farmer had q son who was extreme
~ lazy and shirked every thing until
the fathers Ire would become aroused
and then he would move lively. One
day he stepped out the door just before
the old man wanted him and when
his father reached the doorway was
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

In speaking of Sam Jones' sermon
at Oxford, Justice Lamar said: I'll
was striking in many senses. Parts
of it were like a Pullman palace sleep
ing car-capable of being hitched to
any train, going in any direction, al
any time-fltting everywhere, acting
automatically and capable of emana-
ting from no other brain than that OF
the original Sam Jones"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
He LlSe. LIE aPrinoa.

Senator Evsrtv has almost a. large a
residence in Washington as he has in
New York. he has three houses which
he keeps open all the time-one at New
York, one at Washington and one at
Windsor, Vt At each he has library
almost the duplicate Of the other two
filled with the best works Of law, his
tory, political economy, poetry and
prose fiction The Senstor likes HIS
comfort and his ambition and satisfac-
ton is 70 live like an English gentle
man, on luxurious and liberal scala,
without any regard 10 tho petty eOOno-
mics Of life It can not cost him less
than 500 900 yoss - HVS.=zN. Z. Sta,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

-Mra 0add-'0A, have you heard
the awful newsP It's outrageous! It's
monStrousl And this, In o Christian
land, too Mr.. Goodheart is not only
tired Of his wife, butts he's trying to
kill her; and that isn't the worst OF it.
Hes bound 10 make money out OF the
poor innocent creatures death. Oh. it's
horriblel" Mrs Gabb teostat ically)--
'Do tell me all about IT," Mrs. Gadd
I'm CHASTITY whisper)-''Iie got her life
insured for large amount and then L.
gave her Q whole lot Of money or
course, she'll kill herself shopplng"--
n. Y. Weekly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

An eight-wheeled railroad church
has just been finished at Tiflis in the
Transcaucasian railway company for
use along the line. 1t is surmounted
by cross at one end and at the other
there is a handsome beltry with three
bells. Beside the church proper, 1t
has apartments for the priests. 1t can
comfortably seat seventy persons.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

Chairman Cannon OF the house CON-
Inittee ON appropriations denies that
tbe appropriations for the current ifs
cal year will exceed the revenues.
lie claims that the revenues,
even with the Mckinley reductions
will be s57, 497, 900 above all but the
Jaw pension law needs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19
BSeD f6ofS Before.

Emily-Did George propose last night
sS you thought he would7
Rose without much enthusiasm)-
Yes, he proposed.
Bmily--Did you sCcept him9
Rose-Of course.
Emily-But you don't appear to b
very happy over IL
Rose-I am not. There Is q gather
ing doubt about George in my mind.
Emily-You surprise me. On what
account R0se2
Rose-He didn't appear to be sumo
iently nervous over IL. Throwing her
self into her friends arms and bursting
into tears.) Oh, Emily, I'm afraid
George has proposed 10 some other girl
befcrel-Texas SiftingH
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

The Mcpherson Republican was the
only paper in the state that published
the proceedings of the prohibition con-
vcntion platform and all, and they
bought Just one copy.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

The legislature Of Louisiana adj
iourned without passing the lottery
bill over Governor Nichols veto, the
vote being one short of two-thirds in
the senate, on, account Of the sickness
Of Que seaalor, who died 4 few hours
after the adjournment.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

Atehison has a yonng and pretty
woman who smokes pipe and the
young woman has husband who
sits up at night to convince her of the
enormity of her offense in so doing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-19

The reason given why birds do not
fall from their perch is because they
can not open the foot when the leg is
bent. Look at a hen walking and sec
it close its toes as 1t lifts its foOt and
open them as it touches the ground.