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St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29

public applied to the Government of the
United States for recognition, and on
February %, 1s45, an agent was sent
out by the State Department to inquire
and report as to the extent of its terri
tory. the character Of the population, its
various industries, products and re-
sources Mr. IIogan's instructions were
given him by Mr.. Calhoun at the close
of Mr. Tyler's administration, and his
report was made to Mr.. Buchanan, the
Secretary of State under President Polk,
October 4, 1915.
In 1916 the subject was finally taken
up and under the instructions OF MI.
Bancroft, then Secretary Of the Navy,
Lieut.. Qate AdmiraD d. d. Porter trav-
ersod nearly the whole island and mad c
an elaborate and highly favorable report
of its resources and of tho character Of
the people.
The annexation of Texas, which was
consummatcd bout this time, and the ac
quisitior of California, which followed
upon the war with Mexico, brought to
The administration Of Mr.. Polk the
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29
TWO VOICES,
A HOMILY,


The humblest and frailest grassy blade
That ever the passing breezes swayed
Is of Beauty's palace green arcade.
Akin to the uttermost stars that burn,
A story the wisest may never learn,
Is the tiny pebble thy footsteps spurn.
In each human heart potential dwell,
Hid from The world ana itself rs well,
Heights Of heaven, abysms of hell.
The core of the earth is fiery young:
No matter what may be said or sung
With "a weary brain and wailing tongue.
Soul self pent in a narrow plot
Longing each morn for some fair lot,
Some bounteous grace which thou hast not
Dull thou must be not to understand,
And blind thou art not to see at hand
Thy dreams by reality far outspaunel;
For wonder lies at thy very door,
And magic thy Eresie sits before,
And marvels through every window pour.
Woven the wings Of the swift hours be
Of splendor ami terror and mystery;
One thing is neelful-the eyes to see!
-CornhU Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29
The Decimal Scale.

The disadvantage of the decimal scale
is that the number ten can be only di-
vided without leaving fraction. A
duodecimal scale of Enumeration would
have been much better, and, in fact, is
much more in accordance with our pres
ent system of weight, measure and coin
age. Had the ChaLdeans or Arabs, who
instituted the decimal scale of numbers
from their ten digits, only taken it from
the giants ar-92g them, who, like the
giant of Gath, had twelve digits as well
as toes, the result would have been much
more satisfactory to all calculating indi-
viduals among succeeding generations,
as we'll as those of our civil service.-
Temple Bar.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29

It is estimated by the New York Voice
that 400, 900, 900 of the human race make
use of opium, not as medicine, but for
its exhilarating effects. From 200, 00O,-
900 to 800, 100000 employ hasheesh for
the same purpose. The betel nut is
masticated by 100, 900, 900 inhabitants
of Farther India and the islands of the
Pacific and Indian Oceans, while 10, 900
900 more indulge in the use of cocoa.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29

The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Herald writes awe are Ger
tainly going baseball crazy here again.
Two years ago the craze resembled that
which overwhelmed the city when six
day walking matches were first estab-
lished. Thousands of those who could
not see the games made their homes
wretched because they stayed to watch
the bulletin boards long after the dinner
hour. At least 100, 900 copies daily of the
extra editions of the evening newspapers
containing the reports of the games were
sold. Last year all this was changed,
and many thought that the game had re-
ceived its death blow; that was a mis-
take. Everybody is hurrahing. The
old throngs gather around the bulletin
boards. The extra editions are sold as
though they contained reports of great
battle, and Buck Ewing, Tim Keefe and
Mickey Welsh are once more popular
heroes and, like the celebrated official Of
Washington, are esteemed by the
younger generation as bigger men than
Grant. And what whirligig it is for
young Sharrott! Two years ago he was
a barefooted youngster tossing the ball
on the sand lots of Staten Island with no
dream Of future greatness, and to-day he
is the hero of the hour because he pos
sesses wonderful "upshoot" and a
dangerous ''drop- ball." Even clergy
men are forgetting the theological con-
troversies in their admiration of young
Sharrott and the Hoosier Rusie."
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29
St. Landry Democrat,
LA. SANDOZ, Editor & Pub.
OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA

The latest industry is the manufacture
of mummies, which was brought to
light in Egypt by the recent conviction
of the ingenious manufacturer.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29

Under the present game laws of New
York the English sparrow is not pro-
tected, and it is made misdemeanor to
give feed or shelter to that bird.
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29
Embalmed Rulers of Portugal.

The embaImed remains of all the dead
Braganzas, the rulers Of Portugal, lie In
a mausoleum in Lisbon, where they are
preserved in trunk like chests. ranged
around the wall. A recent American
visitor was permitted to look upon the
face of the late empress of Brazil, whose
features are so well preserved and whose
face is so serene that she appears simply
to have fallen asleep. The bodies OF
every member of the dynasty, from John
w., who died in 1856, are slowed away
St. Landry democrat., 1891-08-29

Desnite all the efforts Of the Govern.
ment to stamp ont the disease, trichlno,
sis continues to exist ia some parts Of
lsymanXs
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CheswOld Items.

James 5. Moore is enlarging tbs
dwelling house on his farm at Ches
void, ~N'S
John II. Bishop will move to Chas,
VOID IN the early spring, retire from
active farming and employ his time
looking after his three farms.
Mrs. b. M. Emerson on the State
road is greatly improving the appear-
ance of her residence by q coat OF
paint. "
Isaac Denney, on the Leipsic road
has thoroughly remodled his home.
Mr.. Denney has lived on this farm CON
tinuously for twenty-five years.
John Dannenhamer last week had n
young horse badly cut with a wire
fence.
Rev. s. M. Morgan, of HilIsboro. Md
Is expected to preach at Bethel merit
Sunday morning.
The Ladies Aidn will have a short
programme of something of a literary
character as new feature for each
a meeting. Misses Clara Moore, Lizzie
+. Bishop and Mrs. ID. II. Boyce are a
committee to lock it up. At the last
meeting with Mrs. B. f. Smith. Miss
clara Moore gave reading and Clara
savln, seven year old, gave a reoIta.
ton, and at the previous meeting
2 harvey Palmatory, years old and
Candy Jones. years, each gave q short
recitation.
The Sunday school Of Bethel Church
nas purchased new Library.
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Frank Bailey, who succeeded his
father in the lumber business about
one year ago, takes this opDortnnitv
10 inform the public that he is pre.
pared to sell lumber and other build
ing material at 10 wer rates than have
ever before been quoted in this section
OF the country.
ne mas MADE arrangements to have
ms southern lumber and shingles de-
ilVered by water and is thereby ena-
Oled to sell much lower than when he
got by rail. Another fact to he man.
TONED is, that he keeps most of his
lumber under cover and il is row in
better condition when sold than when
received; bright looking, perfectly sea-
soned, and not shiVered and warned
by the sun aud rain,
10 demOpstFate the truth of what he
says, he quotes the following remark,
ably low prices on some of his nrin.
cipal stock, viz;
Hemlock boards, at $15. 90 per thous-
anui heplook soantling, at $500 per
thousand white pine boards, rough.
dressed, or rahbeted at sci 90 per
thousand; North Carolina pine boa rds
at Sl4.0O per thousand.
by comparing these prices with some
OF your old bills, he claims you will
ma nothing to compare with them.
Mr.. b. guarantees no one shall heat
him in his prices and if there is anv
fault to find in the above list. he Il
perfectly willing to do the square
thing. Wv ""'e
de sells at so much per thousand. or
Oy contract, and offers special Induce.
me9ts on large orders and for cash.
hencefOrth his motto is ''smaH profits
qI1cS sales" He earnestly solicits Mi
persons contemplating the purchase of
lumber to at least give him a call. Iook
at his stock, hear his prices, and he
has no fear but what he can deal sat.
isfactOrilY with them.
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0utbuildings Burned

The Outbuildings on the farm of Mrs.
Lydia Colt, widow of the late John H.
Colt, on the Alley road little west OF
Clayton, we're burned on Thursday
night or rather Friday morning, to-
gether with nine horses, four COWS. 800
bushels of corn, all the provender, har-
ness, etc. The loss was about S. 300
on which there was an insurance nj
about $4,000 In the Fire Association of
Philadelphia, effected through the
agency of W. o. Hoffecker. Two of
the horseG burned belonged to ]. P.
Stats who had been helping market
the corn the day before and who ia to
be the future tenant of the farm. He
had no insurance on his horses. Moth
ing was saved except a wheat reaper.
wagon and some minor things in a
wagon house at the remotest end of
the yard. When the family were
aroused by OOlOred man from Claw
ton, w no saw the Rre and ran over.
the stable, where the fire first started
was falling In, and the rest on fire
and nothing could be saved.
The puzzling question, and there has
been some effort TO find out, is. how
did the fire originated 1t is hard to
believe that anyone would want to
harp Mrs. Colt. Starting from the
stable It would seem to Indicate the
possibility Of coming from a careless
smoker of pipe or cigar, but it is pos
ltiYely asserted that no one of the
family was about the buildings after
putting things away for the eveAing,
and that as the men had been working
hard they retired early.
This makes the third time these
buildings have been burned, the other
times Icing thirty years ago, only few
months apart, the deed then being
traced to cOlored boy, who lived
with the owner, the late Tilghman
FOxwell.
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The Moons Eclipse

The eclipse of the moon on Sunday
night was as satisfactory in every way
the day, the time in the day and
clear sky-as it could be. The wind
had been blowing freshly from the
east and clouds Obscured the skv most
of the afternoon, but shortly after tbe
moon arose they rolled away, giving a
beautiful evening and an unobstructed
sight throughout the eclipse. Most
everybody had a satisfactory look at n
and the gazers through the course of
the shadows track ACROSS the face of
the earth We're numbered by the mil.
lions.
Soon after the moon put in an an.
pearance, dark edge was noticed on
the lower edge which gradually grew
larger and larger. BY the time the
face of the moon became half obscured
about o'clock, probably two.thirds of
the people were passing out and in
their dwellings to WATCH the progress
OF the eclipse, and by 6.37 the whole
face OF the moon had been teleseoned
by the earth's shadow. At 8 O'Clock
the shadow had passed completely
over and the moon was shining as
brightly all over the country as it ever
did before. The eclipse was the fourth
within period of eight years. It will
be IL years before there will be another
so perfect an eclipse.
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Personal.

Rev. G. W. Dame will preacb in the
church of the Incarnation, PhiIadeI.
phia next Sunday, his place at st.
Peter,s being supplied by Rev. Mr..
lev. Dir. W. S. Robinson, who has
been spending two or days in Smyrna.
guest of John H. HOfecker, returns
to Patterson, n, j., this evening,
Mrs. II. ID, HOffecker ls on a visit of
several weeks to friends in Philadel.
phia.
Mrs. Joseph B. FAIRIES, James Fl
FAIRIES and son, of Philadelphia. Tbos
ID. FAIRIES and wife, of Pottsyille. Pa
were in town Monday attending the
funeral of Isaac II. FAIRIES.
in town. '''"U'
Mr.. and Mrs. Loper of Millington
are visiting g. B. Taylor and wife
Rev. R. K. Stephenson has gone IN
attend the Epworth League Convex.
ton In Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mrs. Upham, of Milwaukee, is visi-
ting her sister, Mrs. Geo. H. RAYMOND
John Ransom, of Wilmington Frank
Mccoy, of Philadelphia, Harry TIlCb.
man OF Crlsleld, Daniel Wells, of New
York and J. O. Mannering, of Virginia
are visiting in Smyrna.
Mrs. W. F. Weldon and B. V. Vel.
don and wife, are visiting relatives in
Wilmington.
Miss Kate Hammond, of Dover. is
the guest of Miss Carrie Beck.
PRESIDING Elder Smith has sufficiently
recovered to be out. and made the
TIMES OFFICE business visit this
morning,
Miss Laura White is visiting friends
in the city.
Charles COverdale, of CLAYTON. am.
plOyed in tho B. & o. railread ward a.
Canton, near Baltimore, had his riObt
hand so badly mashed in coupling cars
last week as to require amputation
above the wrist. He is in a hospital
there. 'O"i
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DAVID T. MARVEL,
Secretary Of State.

SENIOR MONTT, the Gillian NJ mister,
was presented to President Harrison
on Friday. If the Chilians are not
satisfied with the good intentions of
this government, they arc indeed spoil
ing for a fight, but this is in no ways
probable. The President was espec-
tally felicitous in the choice of language
in which he conveyed the intimation
that American neutrality worked both
ways during the Gillian warm de-
clining Ito allow war vessel of the
United States to carry to a neutral
where it could be made available for
war purposes, the silver of Balmaceda, :"
as we'll as in pursuing and bringing
back the Itata. The Englishmen, who
have done all they could to create a
hostile feeling in that nation, were the
ones to furnish Balmaceda a vessel to
make way with the confscated treas
nres. Our government observed a
strict neutrality with both parties in
the civil conflict.
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Literary Notes.

The Horse Show at Madison Souaro
Garden will be the subject of three
full-page illustrations, together VIII
appropriate comment. in the NET mn
per OF Harper's Weekly, published Nov.
emoer Ioth The same number will
contain the first accurate Portraits of
The Yale and Harvard football teams
rom photographs taken expressly for
the Weekly. '~' 'o'
The number of Rarper's Bazaar. pub.
llshed November 18th, will he a
thanksgiving number, and will con.
tain rich variety of stories. noems
and other articles appropriate to the
occasion. One Of the chief attraotions
Will be poem by Theron Brown
illustrated by Howard PYLE. descrih'
ing the First Thanksgiving in New
England" 1921. There will also ba
the hrst part of story by Louise
stockton, "The Trouble tool TO-
Ben," illustrated by Rosina Emmett
sherwood a brilliant short story nv
W. 5. Moody, November Roses. :,
illustrated by Alice Barber Stenhens.
and valuable article by Helen Wat
tersOn on "The Upbuilding of Home u
A picture to every third page or 90
OF November Book NeiCs (Philsdelnbia1
gives foretaste of what NAV be ex.
pected for the coming HOLIDAYS. Mr.
Dole IN his letter from Boston. tells of
a number OF Christmas books, and this
II supplemented by the ennonnca-
ments OF publishers in the advertisinU
pages. The pricelist of current hooks
which Book NesOs always describes 81
well, covers over twenty pages. All
this for five cents.
The Christmas number of the Cen.
tary will contain four complete stories.
The Christmas Shadrach,h bv FranL
n. Stockton "a Christmas FantasS
with Moral" by Thomas Bailey AZ
arlch The Rapture of Hetty.n nv
Mary Hallock FOote and "Wnifv
Wall" a Christmas story from life nr
5. Weir Mitehell's novel. "Charactar
stics," will begin in this number
Every railroad man will want 10 saa
his weeks issue of Fnaak LesISsiS
lFeeMy. Its front page has a saost
beautiful and lifelike likeness of Preais
lent George B. Roberts, of che Penn.
ylyania Railroad Company. We $50
ind q page of interesting sketches
moving the workings Of this great
ystem. The striking events that
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exactly what it was appointed to do.
More than that, the committee was
appointed under a resolution drawn up
by prominent Democratic member
of the bar, and it was offered in the
Levy Court by prominent Democra-
tic member, and it was unanimously
adopted by the court. The first com
mittee appointed under the resolution
had a Democratic chairman who neve
called the committee together. 1t was
discharged and another committee was
appointed with a Republican chair
man.
The EUery EUening looks at it from
another stand point, and refers to it
thus:
at was devilish good politics" was
the sapient comment of an observer
when those two good Republicans,
Messrs. CTanston and GrOOme, craw-
fished yesterday away from that man
damus application which threatened so
much embarrassment to the plans of
their party managers. This move un-
questionably keeps those 1850 or 2, 300,
or whatever the real number may be,
alleged tax receipts out of court, and
their Federal purchasers from cross
examination by trained counsel, for the
time being but the danger is by no
means over yet. Nearly a year must
intervene before the party managers
can hope to reap the results of this
conspiracy, and great many things
may happen within year.
These are questions that interest
voters of all parties, and we give the
views pro and con so our readers can
take view of the movements on the
great political chess board. Another
writer thus speaks of it:
"This little matter of 1850 Republi-
can votes qualified breaks in terribly at
the start with the usual Democratic
Omens of victory. Could they have but
got the mandamus applied for, the
Levy Court would have been compelled
to have entered satisfaction on Nick ee s
official bond, which would have been
equivalent to saying that be had no
money the Republicans claimed to
have paid him, and then, of course, the
receipts the Republicans got for the
taxes paid would have been weakened
to such an extent that they would
have been refused legal recognition
when the holders presented them to
the registration officers as proof of
their right to be registered"
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For the Smyrna Times.
Mr.. EDITOR :

Mr.. EDITOR: ''''
see by your paper of Yesterday
that 1t IS stated Judge Finletter's de.
clsion in Philadelphia regarding tax
receipts will affect Delaware and that
the fate of nearly $4,000 worth of
| county receipts in this county will de-
pend upon a suit now before the Court
of Errors and Appeals. There is no
such suit pending. Suits will be- en-.
tered IN few days against the thiev-
ing collectors, DOugherty and Mckee.
Tor about $500 which the Levy Court
has discovered, after allowing Co the
ex .collectOrs the benefit of every doubt.
TO be due the county by these officials
Judge Finletter's decision more affects
opinion as to the right or wrong OF
buying receipts 10 bulk, but it cannot
Affect the validity of those receipts.
We have nothing to do with the Phil
adelphia courts. There is no such
| question before the Delaware court
The custom of many years ia in favor
OF the validity of these receipts.
For twenty years the Democrats of
Ael9VaFc carFied elections with re.
celpts that were not bought in bulk.
but which were issued in bulk and in
blank without money or price. Again
there are hundred examples where
the most efficient Republicans of The
state, embracing the leading men of
the three counties, have bought re.
celpts in bulk. Finally the Demo.
CRATIC leaders Of Sussex bought receipts
in the same way in that county last
spring and their fate liz that cOnntv ia
even more dependent upon those re-
ceipts than is the Republican fate in
this county dependent upon tue re-
celpts bought by the Republican county
committee.
The Republicans can win in this
county without those receipts. The
Democrats cannot possibly win in
sussex without theirs. Hence, the
Democratic party will permit any doubt
to be cast upon any receipts.
REPORTER.
Wilmington, Del .,NoU. 18th. 1891.
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The mandamas proceedings to COM
pei the Levy Court of New Castle
county to satisfy the official bond OF
ex-COunty-Tax Collector George W.
Mckee took an unexpected turn at an
adjourned session of the Superior Court
last week.
The role was quashed upon the mo-
ton of Colonel Benjamin Nields, at
tOrney for John A. Cranston and Char
les NJ. GrOOme, the two snFetjes or
MeKee's bond, who had prayed To- ;ae
writ. The reason assigned by COl.rel
Nields was that the investigation
made by the Levy Court have shown
that Mckee is indebted to the county
to a much less amount than had been
apparent at the time the application
for the mandamus was made.
The Delinquent Tax List Inyesljga-
ting Committee report to the Levy
Court that ex-collectors Mckee and
DOugheFty wrongfully returned as de.
linquent 2SO9 taxables, representing
$31S5.34, which they still owe the
county.
Of course there are two views on the
question as on everything else of a DO,
iitical nature. Thus, the Daily Repub
tieGa in speaking of it says:
Our Democratic friends still treat the
matter as if the committee should have
made the investigation on q criminal
basis, as If somebody had been bribed
or as If fraudulent tax receipts had
been issued. Their party has been 40
accustomed to carrying the elections
by means Of fraudulent tax receipts.
they cannot imagine that any other
party could possibly pursue any other
course than they pursued and keep up
the fraud racket in retaliation. They
do not seem to have the slightest idea
that any political party could or would
be more honest than their own, and
hence they are determined not to be-
lieve that the Republicans acted hon
estIy in paying the taxes of 1860 of
their poll taxables. taking regular bon
aide receipts for each Individual
whose tax they paid. If the Demo.
Gratis had acted in the same honest
manner for seventeen years, while they
were voting their poll taxa0les on
fraudulent tax receipts and without
raving poli taxes the county would
Not have bad a floating debt of $85, 900,
when the Republican Levy Court came
The Levy Court Committee has done
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The Worlds Convention of Women's
Christian Temperance Union, as we'll
as the National Convention of the W.
G. T. u, assembled in Boston last
week. At the opening of the latter
on Thursday, four thousand packed
the great hall, balconies and aisIes of
fremont Temple and oVerAOwed into
Park Street Church and Broomield
street, near by, that morning, when the
monster Worlds Convention of the
National WOman's Christian Temper
ance Union was called to order. Both
the overflow meetings were crowded.
The scenes about and within fremont
Temple were inspiring. The 5000
delegates, from every state and terri
tory in the union, were alone enough
to test the capacity of the building.
Miss Willard called the convention
to order and announced the hymn of
welcome, written for the occasion by
Rev. DR.. Rankin, president of the
Howard University, Washington, d.
G. Miss Willard led in the response.
reading of the crusade Psalm, followed
by Mary Grant Cremar, of New Jersey
in a prayer for this and other lands.
Miss Willard made long address, in
the course of which, she said:
THAT party which Enthusiastically de-
clares for the prohibition Of strong
drink in the political platform of 1892
is the only one that can hope for the
good will, good word and prayers of
the w. G. T. U. We nailed that ban
ner TO the masthead in 1884, and sink
or swim, live or die, survive or perish
we will keep it waving"
The report of Miss Caroline J. Bull,
OF Connecticut, the corresponding Sec
rotary, showed the progress of the
work since its inception. A. the first
convention in CleVeland in 1874 seven
teen states were represented. At this
convention fifty-One states end terri
tories and the District of Columbia are
represented. At the time of the Sec
Ond convention there were 4 ,458 mem.
bers in the Union. This year the mem.
bership is 153, 402, a gain over last year
of TO- 69 members.