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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18
How to KIN a Cat.

n number of people are Interested in
learning the best way of painlessly kill
ing animals, and we may usefully note
a communication on the subject from a
correspondent of the English Mechanic
lie writes: The most merciful way Of
destroying cats is To chloroforn them.
Draw a sock (knitted one preferred. as
being elastic) over pusSy's head SO that
the toe of the sock is brought to her
nose or nearly 50; then pour abont
haIf ateaspoonful Of chloroform on the
sock close to her nose. Almost as soon
as she has become frightened by the
unusual smell of chloroform she quietly
goes OFF 10 sleep; little more chloro-
form is added, perhaps twice, and pussy
never wakes again.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18
How to Find Mater

n farmer of Atchison, Kan, wanted
to dig well; SO he plowed a lot of land
and planted it in oats. Every day he
watched the oats, observing the spots that
showed the greatest moisture Finally
he selected spot and sank well. At
twenty-four feet he had a fine stream
OF water Il IS said to be the best well
IL the country.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18

ItIs said there are Only ,anis;
the English language Ther 81
all the vowcls in their lr- Ib
"abstemious'' and ''ta'e''s- y, ;--,-if
following each have them ,...a,rtastoa' ~
order: Authoritative, di'a' =, ;lus. .
encouraging, efiicaciouS, nee ,ia,i1a'
stantaneous. importuna''' % .il,rioas
precarious, pertinacion'' .;a -, entiaa''
Simultaneous, tenacious
uneouivocal and vcNa-'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18
THE TRAFFIC IN TITLES,
Addle-Pated Americans Who Ape English
Aristocrats


Aristocrats-
Thousands of American Young men
of fair education and excellent posi-
bilities, captivated by the pictures o.
English aristocratic life drawn in Eng
lish novels, are learning to despise the
simple, rational, useful life of the
worthy American citizen. and to court
consideration and vulgar popularity by
adopting the habits, and leading the
useless lives of English lords. As ia
usual in such cases, writes Thomas Da-
wilson, in the Forum, ''the copy is a car
feature of the original The untitled
American lord proves usually to be a
vulgar creature, having to assert his
self-conferred lordship by all that is
most unattractive, most inhumane, and
most un-American-and il is a good
deal-in the English aristocrat. In
England aristocracy has no need to
display or to obtrude itself; in America
1T can exist only by display and obtru-
SION For this reason the American
would-be noblcman must necessarily
court attention and try to strike the
vulgar imagination by the mere acci-
dentals of aristocracy, such as any
boorish Dives can command-houses,
horses, turnouts, yachts, opera boxes,
and the like. And the vulgar are i'm
pressed by such things, bow down in
servile reverence before them. and do
their best to make a similar display"
IF all the sacrifices which degener-
ate American fathers and mothers have
made to buy titled husbands for their
daughters were recorded, they would
form a revelation so ignominious that
it would not be believed; and, after
such revelation, patriotic Americans
would hardly dare to look foreigners in
the face. But even without such a
revelation the conduct of many of our
countrywomen abroad, and especially in
England, is enough to make every self
respecting American hide his head for
shame"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18

It H believed in PhiladclPhia .l-' .'-.. /.
only one Of the original con-.
flags in existence is in the pos ID
the city troop Of that city. Inc 80. s
is spread between two large ,s,-
plateglass. which keep the aH I'd
from it. The probabilities A. ~.
were il removed from tins e's'., -
fall TO pieces. In design It is =, So ~.
similar TO the English jack. 7, In. ,-...
was made by a committee % - ,
BENJAMIN Franklin was n'.l,,- men ,r,s
177G. Afew years later the i--,. -. :. rs
can standard accepted 10y coNF
submitted and adopted.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18
p-evept;on of Imprudcnt Borr0".

The Egyptians had q 'ci. an. tr,
able ordinance 10 prevent per s,,--,r.s
borrowing imprudcutly. An iT.t ,...ss,s j.
was not permitted to o2rro" 5,.. ,bs bos
giving TO his creditor III Pi''-g b7,h .
of his father. II was d''iil'" -,3..ses
impiety and an infamy not 20 ,.bo ID
sacred pledge. \ person Ca, q
without discharging that au'y T nsa
prived of the customary ho"'
the dead.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
Bayou PIaquelaine.

The United States Engineers have
at last decided to place locks 10
Bayou Plaqnemine and in a short
time workwill be commenced which,
when finished, will ensure slack wa.
ter navigation all the year round
from the Mississippi to this entire
section.
The advantages accruing to the
Teche country will be, comparatively
unlimited. The route through Pla
lquemine will be. fully two hundred
miles shorter than the one now used
and which can be t.aversed only q
part of the year owing to the lificul;
ties which food and low waters
throw in the way ofsteamboat traffic
aud as a consequence freight can be
handled much more rapidly and with
more safety and cheapness.
The route.to the nlfcorrespondipg.
.ly shortened aud freights lliw be Hn,
loaded at our wharyes from the uff
per cities of the Mississippi without
breaking bclk or being handled sew
eral times. This new route will slim.
ulate the various industries of the
Attakapas, open new lands to culti77
valion by providing a cheap method
Of Transporting their produce, lum7
Der can oe shipped to st. Louis and
other cities and towns, -four. graiu
and farm machinery can be obtained
10 return. and all at reduced rates.
Coal can he delivered cheaper and
with more facility, 10 our planters.
Ia fact, locks in Bayou Plaqnemine
will cause opposition and competi
tion.and the shippers and buyers will
profit accordingly Morgan City
Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15

Judge I. Falk has contracted
with the John NJ. Ware Well Com
panY, Of st. Landry parish, to bore
for coal oil and coal on his property,
the discovery Of which was made
some days ago. Each Of the parties
10 the contract are 10 share the pro
ceeds equally, while the well com,
pany deirays all expenses. Work
will begin with steam machinery Ia
about Two weeks. Mr.. Ware j.
now engaged III boring an artesian
we'll ID The courthouse square.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
w. w. EDW ARDS,
Abbeville. Loiaisiana.
Real Z state Agent.

Buys and sells Iand-and pays taxes for
rno1l-residents.
!. Now is the. time to buy the fertile lands
of the ..Attakapas country cheap. The
railroads are coming and it. will soon be,
too late.
The following bodies Of fine lands are
offered for sale very cheap:
l. 40 acres i'll Vermilion parish about
10 miles southwest of AbbeyiIle- All in q
body and partly timber and partly sea
marsh prairie. "A fine winter range cattle,
very low for cash.
2. SO arpents near Abbeville All under
a good fence and with good cabin, well,
etc. A choice farm.,.
g. 500 arpents on Bayou Vermilion,
about ~ miles below Abbeyille. Fine
bayou land, part timber and part prairie.
Cheap for cash.
. A. 1ss5 arpents of choice prairie land in
Mouton's cove.
5. 40 acres Of fine timber land in the
rear Of T. y. Winston's plantation.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
Tor. sale.

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parish and of the Farmers Inions In a
very prosperous condition. Good reasons
forswishing To sell 5AddEess. Progressive
Age, Ruston La. june Is, ,-tf.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
Notice.

The public is hereby notified that
my wife Elizabeth Perry having
abandoned my domicil without any
just cause or reason, I will not be
responsible for any debts contracted
by her from and after this date.
AbbeTille, La, July l8, 1891.
ARsENE MARcEAU1.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
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Venire.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Vermilion.

List of persons drawn to serve as
Grand and Petit Jurors at the next
Jury term Of the District Court to
be held in this parish on Monday
the 7th day of September, A. D.
1891.
GRAND AND PETIT JURORS FOR THE
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
NOTICE.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-08-15
Three Dangerous Women.

+ 1 "a
Beware of three women. The one
who docs not love children. the one
who does not love flowers, and she
who openly declares she does NOT
like other, women. i
There is something wanting in SUCH.
and in all probability its place is aups
piled by some unlovely trait. As
Shakespeare says of him who has no
soul Tor music, such womanis 6tIor
treason. strategy and ,spoils, and d
woman intent on those is. ten thous.
and times worse than any man could
be, for, standing higher, she can fall
lower. Men may smile and jest a lit
tie over the tenderness flayished on
"a baby, but after all the prattle
every womanly woman involuntarily
breaks into at the sight Of the wee
creatures. is verytsweet to MASCULINE
ears. It was the first language they
ever knew, and in spite of the jest
and smile, the. sweetest on, wife or
sweetheart's lips. They may laugh,
too, at the little garden tools, which
seem like playthings to their
strength, but in their hearts they as
sociate, and rightly, purity of char.
acter and life with the pursuit. And
as for the woman who does not care
for her own sex aud boldly ayows il,
she is coquette pure and simple,
and one OF the rstand lowest typo,
too, as a general thing.
The Alexandra Times refers II
the great tornado which destroyed
The town Of Na.chez on the 7lh day
of May. 1910, and recalls two Incl
dents which the editor has.from ira
dition. One incident OF. The storm.
he says was that man was blown
across the river and lodged unhurt
in the top Of cottonwood tree on
the other side. It ia also said that
the waters Of the Mississippi were
divided by the force Of the wind and
for moment the bottom exposed TO
view sort of Red sea affair. The
Advocate editor has heard many sto.7
ries related Of the famous tornado.
An old river pilot once told him
that his boat was lyingat the Match
70 landing when the storm struck II,
and she wa turued bottom np in the
twinkling Of an ere and sank, only q
few of her passengers and crew being
saved. Many other steamboats, were
also wrecked. and uhe town was torn
literally to atoms. Another tradi-
tion is that this tornado crossed the
Red river valley high up in the ait,
and that there was a shower of
leaves twigs aud other debris Of the
forest for nearly 4 mile in width en-.
tirely across the valley, from south.
west to northeast.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
MUSIC IN ST. PAUL.

1t gives great pleasure to be able to an
nounce definitely that the long-looked for
Scharwenka concert will take place Thurs
day, March 10, 1891. Those who have heard
Herr Xayer Scharwenka say that he is q most
brilliant and sympathetic player whose per
Torrance of his work is almost beyond
praise from purely technical standpoint
His touch is that of master, and calculated
I to make many pianist almost envious.
Herr ). has been persuaded to play his Con
eerto No. at this concert. Appended here
withlwesSlve the full programme:
O-eItuTe 80. .......... Seibert's Orchestra
''Galtia'' - GOunOd
st. Paul Choral Association and Orchestra
49, voices.
Solo by Mrs. ID. F. De Wolff
Concerto, Il Flat Minor, Op. 81 .Scharwenka
Herr Xaver Sch0rwenka.
PaTt Songs
"a Hight Song .............. Rheinberger
| b 'Aiatona Lovely Maiden. Orlando LasSrls
st. Paul Choral Association.
a 'Erzaehlungen am Clavier'' ops
c Nalse Caprice 49,. OPP. 81 W ka
"a o'accaI ne Et4 Tn3o. s,i,r, ;;;9p. ~
Overture. ....t............S eibert's Orchestra
til
The first purely ballad concert ever an
nounced for st. Paul will occur one week
from 10 morrow at Lifts hall. 1t is under
direction of Mrs. Loxton Hunter The prin-
cipals will be Mrs. Hunter, soprano: Mrs.
Allen Kreiger, contralto, and quartette
Prof. Titcomb will be the pianist The pro-
gramme will be announced later
Ill
The fifth concert of Seiberts West side
series, given at the new Martin opera house,
will occur at ) aclock this afternoon. The
programme is announced as follows:
PART 1.
March-'F ruehlingsgruss Seibert
(In the Hungarian Stylei
Overture-'rhc Two Hussars" Dapplcr
Cayatini from Opera Robert der
Teufel" Meverbeer
french Horn Solo by Con. Heinrich
Bass SolO-"Retiea Aria, from OPP.
era "Cecelia Vesper' ...........V Verdi
John F. Gehan.
Piano Accompaniment by c. B. PottgIeser.
PART II.
Idyll-"Thc Forge IN the Forest .Micbalis
IA Para phrase, Melodic in F. Rubinstein
Oh Gayotte-'' Heuriette'' Devoux
Oboe SOLO by IT, Wuerz.
''PiZzicato Polka Strauss
Overture-''The Merry Monarch Sousa
Opera PLAYED this coming week at the Metro
politan Opera House-A grand success.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
LIKE WHITE POLITICS.

Among the bushels of congratulatory
dispatches from all parts of the county
received by Senator PALMER, of Hi
nois, in the hour Of triumph the past
week, one from colored man down on
the Ohio river, eXulting in the success
of friend of the negro, was not among
the least welcome. it is believed
PALMER was always an earnest oppo-
nent of slavery, and believed that the
black man had as good q right to live
and make an honest living as those who
had straighter hair. In fact the only
time he ever came into conflict with the
scope of the. law was when a grand jury
in an Illinois county brought in an
Indictment against him for bringing a
colored man into the state. The black
laws of Illinois passed in dubious era,
largely by the agency of join A.
LOGAN, were still Oh the statute books
during the war; and when the general
brought his colofed servant into the
state, the Indictment was found. Still,
few colored voters have ever stood by
their old friend in his tight places. The
only one in the legislature voted against
him ia times for senator. But they are
much like white politicians.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
AS A PRECEDENT.

The civil service reform organization
in Massachusetts publishes a censorious
dissertation addressed to the gentleman
who hunts ducks in Maryland on secu-
lar days of late, insisting that he did
wrongnOt to reappoint Gen. CoRSE post
master of Boston. There was no ques-
ton that he made as faithful post
master as he was soldier when he was
holding the pass at Alatoona IN criti-
cal junctnre. The business interests
desired his retention, and the only rea-
son for removal was that he was Dem
ocrat. 1t was an admirable opportunity
for the president to illustrate his fidelity
to his reform pledges and honor hero
of the war. But that was net the stat
ure of BENJAMIN. Gen. CoRSE is to
step down and out, and loyal partisan
to take his place. No Democrat is
likely to complain: but they may insist
upon it as one of the precedcnts when
HARRISON gives place 70 long success
sion of Democrats.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
THE LAST JOURNEY.

The funeral train bearing the re-
mains Of Gen. Sherman to the last rest
ing place, in passing through one OF the
Southern hamletS, was boarded by an
aged darkey who begged the privilege
of remaining when objections were of
fered by the porter of the car. The
author loaned thought to the occasion
by subscribing the following lines as
applying to the incident.
The sombcr train moved slowly on. bearing
its noble dead
And through the land, from North to South
q nation bowed its head
And veterans all along the line, with meas
ured step and slow.
With heads uncovered. came to view that
But who's this dark intruder bent with the
weight OF years
Who boards the train and takes a seat. and
bathes his face iii tears
The porter says. You ma Ike mistake: tbi is
4 funeral train
We take no wayside passengers; You can
not here remain
oh. please sab; please sab let me stay.
twas he VINO made me free,
Il IS tue last march 1 e'er can make with
Sherman toward the sea-
He loose the shae&les from our race he
made the black man tree
But, sab. you were not with us when we
tramped ii TO the sea-
HE led us on 10 victory here; he's won the
victory there,
And solved the problem OF our race where
justice makes men fair
There are no lines of color where our
chieftain tents tonight.
But hand clasps hand of brother. as God
made them black and white.
so please, san, let me follow him. l fear I'll
miss my way,
If left without a leader in the evening of
li1e's day.
st. Paul. March y, 1891.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
SENATORIAL SALES.

The senatorial contest in California.
even more than the recent one in ILL
noiS, indicates the need of putting the
selection in the hands of the people, in
place of the legislature In Illinois
there was no suspicion of the corrupt
use Of money. In California no man
not millionaire or backed by one has
ANY chance of election. The votes are
being scattered for dummies to give
time for the deal to be made. The Re-
publicans have the matter entirely in
their hands, with 90 Of the 120 members,
but will not 90 into caucus. The an
plaisement of the position III the Cali
iornia mind Is from $4,000 to SEQ, 900.
and the suggestion that any man can
secure it without purchase would
be treated as evidence of ignorance
Of the situation. For some reason, the
milliOnaircs are not investing in that
way as layishly as in past times. Two
Of the prominent aspirants are rich,
and EsTEE, the third, looks to Senator
STANFORD to put up for him. He has
been in congress. and has more brains
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
CAUSE OF COLD.

The statement Of a high authority
something less than twenty centuries
ago, that it could not be told where the
winds came from OF WHITTIER they went,
was in reference TO the existing develop
lnent Of meteorological knowledge Still
the statement might be repeated with
out ignoring any very large class of peo-
pie. After the mild weather of nearly
all the winter months. ii is with bad
humor and grumbiing at the season that
MANY look upon q brief period of the
Old-timc March weather. They feel like
banning somebody. On the continent.
and especially in England. the weather
systems have been more out of gear
than on this side. Snow blockades and
freezing people in March in England
have not been quite constitutional in
that section. Fifty years. or the men,
DRY of the oldest Inhabitants. are said
70 he exhausted in finding the prec-
cdents. Perhaps too many icebergs
have drifted into the Gulf stream that is
credited With the nlildness Of the eli
mate. 1t is 4 far more serious matter
thau unwonted weather freaks would
be here as there is little provision for
such variations. Even rail cars have no
stoves. Why in certain variable but
prOtracted periods the mild climates of
Europe should take vacation is not
fully understood by the savants. 1t is
not a freak of a whimsical force, but
the result Of causes that work by rule.
The learned do some guessing. and may
at times hit some of the facts. 1t is
quite rational to supposGthat the boreal
currents above may have been induced
to shoot down IN unwonted places
and pass old routes, but the source
OF their persuasion is the enigma.
A distinguished French astrono-
mer who is credited with unusual
knowledge of Mars-M. FLANINIARIoN-
furnishes somewhat new theory in re-
card to cold waves. He insists that the
north wind does not produce the cold,a
least in the sense that ii is transporta-
ton agency. 1t is dry. and induces
rapid radiation of the heat of the earth.
and consequent lowering of the tenn
pcrature. He explains that if it were
not for the atmosphere there would be
40 heat from the sun. and the tempera-
ture of the earth would be 273 deg. be-
low zero, as it is in the space the earth
rotates in. That is the condition of alb
soiute cold. lie says:
If the atmosphere were very rarelied, such
as that which exists 90 the tops of high
mountains, our planet would equally be coy
cred with eternal ice. What is the element
which i'll The atmosphere is the most effective
IN preserving the heat obtained from the
>ltn: II is neither the oxygen nor any other
sas. but il is the steam of the water, which is
eighteen thousand times more effective to
nreserve heat than molecule of dry air.
Thanks TO this precious faculty. the atmos-
phcre acts like a veritable dollhouse and bot
lies in the solar heat prevents il from shin
ilS off the earth and losing itself in glacial
space.
1t would seemr rather fortunate, Oh the
whole, then. that the earth has All at
inosphere with some moisture.