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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
MY Ruthers," I"


tell you what I'd ruther do
Eff only had my ruthers-
I'd ruther work when l wanted to
Than be bossed round by others.
I'd want to kind o. git the swing
o. what was needed first, by jingi
Afore sweat at anythingl
Ell only had my ruthers.
In fact, I'd aim to be the same
With all men as my brothers,
And they'd be all the same with me,
Eff only had my ruthers.
The poor 'ud git their dues sometimes
Eff only had my ruthers-
And be paid dollars Std o. dimes,
Fer children, wives and mothers;
Their boy at stokes; their girl at sews-
Fer others, not herself, God knowsl
The grave her only change of clothesi
Eff only had my ruthers.
They'd all have 'stuff'' and time enough
To answer one another's
Appealin prayer fer "lovin care"-
Eff l only had my ruthers.
They'd be few folks 'ud asst fer trust
Eff only had my ruthers-
And blame few business men to bust
Themselves or hearts of others
Big guns at come here durin fair
Week could put up Jest anywhere
And find a-full and plenty there,
Eff only had my ruthers;
The rich and great 'ud 'sociate
With all their lowly brothers
Feelin we done the honorun-
Eff only had my ruthers.
james Whitcomb Riley.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Some novelties in stationery are in a
riot of color. Terra Gotta and turquoise
blue are shown, and pink embossed with
wild roses. A coffee colored sheet is
lined with violet, and a deep crushed
strawberry opens to show pale old rose.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
The Ministry of Woman.


How beautiful the ministry
OF woman's gentle handl
How soft loves attributes that spring
At her divine command.
For veal or woe, for good OF i'll,
About mans careless life
She weaves the blossoms of her heart
AS mother, maid or wife.
She leads his feet up from the pit;
She bids his spirit rise;
Sometimes by her superior will,
Sometimes by pleading eyes.
Or else she lures him from the heights
To darkest depths below;
From peace and JOY and love and heaven
No bitterness and woe.
Oh, woman, lovely womankindl
Be careful how you play
The role of queen, in this your realm,
To him whom you may sway.
New York Ledger
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
GEMS IN VERSE.


Be not content; contentment means inaction;.
The growing soul aches on its upward quest;
Safety is twin to satisfaction;
All great achievements spring from life's
unrest.
The tiny roots, deep in the dark mold hiding,
Would never bless the earth with leaf and
flower
Were 1t not an inborn restlessness abiding
In seed and germ TO stir them with its power.
Were man contented with his lot forever,
He had not sought strange seas with sails
unfurled
And the vast wonder of our shores had never
Dawned on the gaze of an admiring world.
Prize what is yours, but be not quite contented;
There is a healthful restlessness of soul,
By which mighty purpose is augmented,
In urging men to reach higher goal
So when the restless impulse rises, driving
Your calm content before it, do not grieve
1t is the upward reaching and the striving
OF the God in you to achieve, achieve.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Two American girls who are studying
art to good advantage in Rome, whose
work will be seen at the exposition, are
Luella Varney and Adelaide johnson.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

According to Julian Ralph, the young
business woman of energy and ability
finds better openings for talent in the
west than elsewhere.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Children VINO Are Always Dressed Up.
There is little girl near by-a deli
cate, nervous creature, small and pale,
who has had to steal her fresh air by
driving with her mamma in stylish
turnout or simply sitting ON the veranda
always with her pretty white dresses,
with puffed sleeves and unruffled hair
but, oh, what pity!-losing all that close
contact with mother earth which her
system needs.
But why look at my neighbours chill
dren for illustration when have erred
myself? For during the first of the sum-
mer l put my own darling boy Of seven
teen months under pretty much the same
discipline. had large square of car
peting put ON the veranda and soap
box filed with sand, and after his long
noon nap and dinner of oatmeal porridge
l would put on a clean white dress and
expect him to keep it presentable. For
awhile the plan worked well; but, alas,
his bigger brother of five years had the
liberty of the whole yard, the gravel in
the driveway-yellow gravel, grieve to
say it is-the hooks and corners every
where where plenty of shovelfuls of
earth could be found, and was the little
one to be deprived Of his liberty?
He gained freedom several times by
lying fiat ON his stomach at the head of
the steps, then backing and sliding down,
thoroughly cleaning them as he went,
but shaking "goodby" to me with his
hands as he glided on. So gave in to
him, and until o'clock he was allowed
to play in full sight of passersby in a
dark check gingham dress, made short,
with no white skirts to soil underneath.
Mothers Nursery Guide.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

To be absolutely correct, a mother
should ask man to call. In this coun-
try it is not the custom for men to ask
permission to call.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

1t is the chime-the cadence heavenly sweet
Heard on the loftest tablelands OF thought
The melody of large minds when they meet
The vast projections that their souls have
sought
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

number, absolutely if not relatively
great, who have no idea of taking up
any form of professional work, who
study for the mere pleasure of it, taken
together with the accessory advantages.
The first class as well as the second,
however, can have ''a good time" So
clally, and if it be true that the busiest
people are the happiest, and the happiest
the busiest, then surely the college girl
of today has her full share of occupation
and of pleasure. But she has, on the
whole, no more occupation than she can
well manage and no more pleasure than
she deserves. Bryn Mawr is the leader
of the new movement in favor of more
independence for the students-one
which has been wonderfully successful
so far, and one which we must hope will
prosper even more in the future than it
has done in the past. The large majority
of college girls are trustworthy, and the
tendency of the times is to recognize the
fact.-Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Common sense, tact, bright conversa-
tional powers, good heart, and behold!
the very creature every man wants for
his wife,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
The Estray.

The Estray.
Wot's that you're askin2 "will take her
back?"
You bet An smooth things over If kin.
"Ongrateful" an 20 no count" ye say2
Waal, mebbe; can't jedge another's sin.
But sunshineu come back when she gifts
Sence she's been gone there amt been much
in life
The sunshine'll come back and stay this time.
o. course I'll take her back. Amt she my
wife2
"Wot'll the folks in teown say bout the 'fair2"
Consarn emil Let 'em gable eff they will
loved her when she was kid knee high,
IN now she's twenty, an love her still.
You fellers' wives kin gossip all ye please;
Most on 'em safe enough that must say
Ell any chap run off with one at night,
You bet he'd bring her back again next day
"Wronged me?" IS that so2 waal it's my af-
fair
Folks at goes wrong amt alters understood.
reckon them at amt been tempted much
Kin lind it powerful easy ter be good
When said I'd perfect and cherish her
For life, guess that didn't mean as how
l would peftect when things wuz runnin
smooth,
But when she was in trouble, jes' like now
soft headed9 Easy goin?" Yes, know,
But I'm hulkin kind o. chap, ye see,
An Annie was so purity an so young;
She alters wuz heap too good for me.
Wot's more, she made some 1owances fer me-
Jes' cause loved her, when she took me, sir;
An jes' because love her, it's my turn;
I'm goin ter make some lowances for her.
o. course you are deakin standin high,
An reg'lar ev'ry meetin time, know.
I've kinder backslid lately; don't show up
At chapel more'n once a month or so;
But amt there some text bout the joy above
That erin cusses wot brace up kin bring2
An seems to me, when I've been thar I've heard
About forgiveness bein good thing
I'll take her back, make her fergit 1t all,
An I'll fergit she ever-went away.
P'raps she will love me better when she finds
One friend at doesn't care what people say
Ef folks here think 'emselves too good for us,
Asks us ter stay away from church an SUCH
Why, Nan and I'll leave teown an go out west,
Where wot the folks don't know won't hurt
'em much. Harry Smith.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Among the students of the Iowa state
university is Mrs. Stark Evans, the wife
Of a lawyer and the mother Of five chill
dren.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Were the world one chrysolite,
The earth golden ball,
And diamonds all the stars of night.
One soul optweights them oil.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

Bret Harte's young daughter, Jessamy,
is taking after her father in the literary
calling.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28


LEAVE FREELAND.
G1O, S.35, $40, 1O.4 A. NJ. 1aa5 1N sa sso
100, 64l, 7l2 S.f7 p NJ, for Drifton, Jeddo
Lumber Yard, Stockton and Hazleton. 'ouuo'
blO, $40 A. NJ, l5O $50 P. NJ, for Maucb
ld Chink, N Allentown, Bethlehem, Phila., Easton
New York orN' 1913 has no connection for
aeISb, SSp A. M. for Bethlehem, Easton and Phila-
,72G, 1856 A. NJ, Is1O, 4.5OP. NJ (via HIGHLAND
BBranch( for White Haven, Glen Snmmit
"hhes-barre, Pittston and l.. and b. Junction
SUNDAY TRAINS.
r I.4o A. NJ. and 3.45 p. NJ. for Drifton. Jeddo.
Lumber Yard and Hazleton. 'e1'o'
90 r. NJ. for Delano Mahanoy City, Sheu-
aliuoah, new York and Philadelphia
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
30 T09, T26, 9ls, 1856 A. NJ, 1916, LIS, 2a.
t' t,oo' 1o5 and S.31 r. NJ. from Hazeton, Stock
ton, Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
I26, 9,lS, 1886 A. NJ, IL l6, 233, $50, TO3 PM
from Delano, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah
(via New Boston Branch.
LILO and s.37 p. NJ. from New York, Easton,
fphiladelphia, Bethlehem, Allentown and
9:lS and 1856 A. NJ. from Easton Philadel-
phia, Bethlehem and Mauch Chunk
9,lS, l0,n A. NJ, 2.43, 6li p. NJ. from White
Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes Barre, Pittston
ana l.. and Is. Junction (via Highland Branch).
SUNDAY TRAINS
ll.3l A. NJ. and 3.3l p. NJ. from Hazleton.
Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton
ii,5l a. NJ. from Delano, Hazleton, Philadel-
33l p. NJ. from Pottsville and Delano.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents. VI -''ho'
l. A. swEIGARD, Gen. Mgr.
o. &. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass Agt.
- Philadelphia, Pa.
South bethlehem. Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
1recommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, ny.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

Not many years ago the use of i'm
proved labor saving machinery in ag-
ricultural pursuits was almost un-
known in the South, and in fact we're
used only to limited extent in the
West, owing perhaps to the fact that
the cost was somewhat high; but with
improved methods of manufacture,
and brisk competition, the prices have
been much reduced and the Southerner
soon "eanght on to the benefits OF
these new inventions, and to day there
is scarcely a progressive farmer in the
South who is not using improved ag-
ricuItural machinery. # there are any
of our readers who have not yet Sc
cured improved machinery, We advise
them to call at once on j. Meyers e.
Co and examine their fine assortment
of labor saving implements, and espe-
cially those manufactured by the reli-
able and popular Osborne Co., which
they are prepared to sell on most ia
y0rable terms.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18
To our Friends and Patrons.

We wish to call the attention OF the friends
and natrons of the COURIER to the necessity
Of their being on the alert, in the matter of
indicial publications. tsheritf7s sales especial
Iy1. as a neglect on their part to give positive
Instructions as to where they desire such
advertisement published is apt to result in
our being deprived of the patronage that
would otherwise be given to us. The sheriff
of this parish has been making himself es-
pecialy Jealous in the matter of securing
sberffs sales for the paper of which he is
director and stakeholder. and several pubica
tions of that nature have appeared in that
paper which the parties interested would
have selected to be done in the COURIER, had
they been consulted and others have been
diverted from lis at the special solicitation OF
the sheriff or his deputies serving the papers
in the matter of seizures.
To those who prefer to patronize any other
paper in this parish we have no desire to in
terfere with their preferences, but our friends
who wish to favor rs with their patronage
are earnestly requested to see that the proper
officers are instructed to have the publication
done in the CoURTER-and they are especially
warned against allowing themselves to be in
iuced to consent that the advertisement
should be done in some other paper.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

Last Tuesday at about noon, be
ligerently inclined descendant of Ham
with an overdose of tanglefoot engaged
in tilt of billlngate, his objective point
being the keeper of the parish Jail.
He had taken his stand in the middle
of the street in front of the Courthouse,
and was quite profase in his pet
names, when the object of his atten
tions concluded to return the compli
ment by lambasting the darkey over
the head with stout hickory stick,
but his i'll directed blows missed the
mark, and Sambo lost no time ID max
ing himself scarce, while the jailor
started out on an exploring expiditIon
after an officer to arrest the fugitive.
which he finally succeeded in finding
BIZ the diDt of perseverance.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

On Friday morning of last week the
inhabitants residing along the bayou
Teche in this parish were startled by
the unusual sound of steamboat com
ing up that stream 1t was the steam
boat Jules j Guidry from st. Martins
vile on its route to New Orleans via
the Little Teche and Conrtablean. II
has been a great many years siaee a
steamboat has ventnred TO navigate
this route. and as the jules j. Gnidry
successfully made the trip it goes to
show that if the q s. government were
disposed TO lend helping hand, this
stream could be made nayigabIe for
steamboats,, and prove great conve-
nience to commerce in thia section.
This venturesome craft was command
ded by Capt. Jules ] Guidry with
Clerk Numa Bienvenu in charge of the
Office.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

In his speech at Minneapolis Mr..
Chauncey NJ. Depew when nominating
President Harrison declared that the
Redublican party could not hope to
win on war issues and bloody shirt
cries, and yet the nominee stands on a
platform which favors worse than
war tariff, the control of federal cleo
tions in the South, by the use of Fed
eral ba5onets, and which makes the
bloody shirt one of the main issues oi
the presidential campaign. Without
such a platform the Repu blcan party
could not hope to win any votes in the
North, or elect its ticket. 1t is in the
full sense of the word party of sec
tionalism.=N. 0. States.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

The platform adopted by the Repub-
lican national coDyentlon contains
nothing that is new. Ii begins with
an Endorsement Of the protective tariff
and attributes to it tke greatness aud
the prosperity of this country and
promises marvellous thing in the
future The policy of reciprocy, the
great fake of the administration which
has been exposed hundred times as
humbug, is lauded as wonderful
achievement of the Republican party
The Democratic idea of the free coin
age of silver on parity vita gold, so
that one dollar shall be equal in value
to the other is endorsed. got because
tue Republicans are IN fger of bi.
metallic coinage but for the 4eason that
thcy are afraid of losing th electoral
votes Of the Silver States. The next
aud the last plank of importance is a
demand for aAe passage of aForce bill
to enable the Republican patty to con-
trol federal elections iu all The States
and perpetuate itself in pwer. The
IyHchings of negtoes in the South
for the raping of white women and
girls are DENOUNCED as inhiman out
RACES perpetrated for peitical pur-
poses. There is no where ip the plat
form, however, a single word of sym
pathy for the toiling masses in the
fields aud shops who are being robbed
daily for the benefit of the favored
classes. The truth is the platform is
about the same as that adopted by the
Republicans iu 1888, and although the
administration of President Harrison
is endpsred. there is no word of praise
for the Reed Billion Dollar Congress,
but this is attributed to the fact that the
Republicans were afraid to, indorse
som, thing that the whole country had
rebuked in a most emphatic manner. -
n q Slatts
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18
Dnty of The Democratic Con,
Vention,


N 0 States,
General Jastremski, chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee.
prints, over his own signature, in his
paper, the Louisiana Review, an ex-
haustiVe history of the late campaign
in this State from May, 1890, to the
close of the general election, which
was carried by fraud, perjury and false
counting, for the candidates of the al
lied Democratic boilers and Warmoth
Radicals.
We have read this paper with atten
ton and we regard it as Il clear, i'm
partial and accurate history of that ex-
traordinary and shameful epoch in the
political history of Louisiana; and we
earnestly suggest, that the Democratic
Convention, which is to assemble in
Baton Rouge on the l4th inst, to ap-
point delegates to the National Demo
cratic Convention to be held in Chica-
go, have General Jastremski's state
ment printed in clear type, on good
paper, in pamphlet form and laid be-
fore every member of the great demo-
cratic Assembly which is to nominate
Democrat for President; and, fur
ther, that when the Committee on
Credentials is appointed, the docu-
ment be submitted to that body as the
case of the McEnery democrats, and
that it be backed up by such oral ar
guments as may be deemed necessary
We know of no power that the Dem
ocratic Convention, to be held in Ba-
ton Rouge. has to harmonize with a
notorious and gigantic, even though
successful Fraud. Harmony, as the
case stands, between the faction of Fraud
and the faction of Principle, can only be
brought about by the latter recognizing
the legitimacy Of the Fraud, in con-
'sideratinn Of being accorded share OF
public spolIs.
The place to harmonize is Chicago,
and the authority to settle this issue is
the National Democratic Convention.
TheEe it is the duty of the true Demo-
Gratis to carry their case. They dare
not sell it out to the Fraud for a few
offices. Let the case GO to the great
Court of the Democracy of this Union.
If that body shall decide that the Fos-
teritcs have observed and obeyed the
regularities of the Democratic party
that they are not boilers that did they
not convert committee of arbtrators,
through the frachery OF the trusted
umpire, into an infamous Returning
Board to swindle the McEnery faction,
that they did not secure the final vic
tory Ivy an alliance with Warmoth,
together with the most shameless pros
tituti0u Of the election machinery Of
the State, and by the most outrageous
frauds in the count, then we will have
nothing to do but to submit, aud vote
for the electors the finally triumphant
faction may nominate,
We do not propose that there shall
be two sets of Democratic electors in
the field what we demand is that,
in deciding which set of delegates from
Louisiana represent the Democratic
party, the National Convention shall
either openly indorse or put it's foot
on boiling, returning boards and
swinhling in elections,
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

Late news from Sarpy crevasse
shows that it is rapidly widening and
has reached such depth that little if
any hope is now entertained of closing
it, and the result will be the flooding
of number of plantations and the in
terruption of traffic on the Mississippi
Valley Railroad, together with the fill
ing up of the lake. On the other side
of the river the break at Avondale is
the most serious and it is now feared
that it will not be closed, as the ends
of the levee are washing badly and the
break, like that at Sarpy, is getting
deeper. If this creyasse is not closed
it will put the Texas and Pacific Rail
road as we'll as the Snuthern Pacific
under water and thus seriously ham
per the business of the city.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

Some weeks ago there appeared in
the Crowley Signal an article severely
condemning exJudge E. T. Lewis for
having adjourned court at Opelousae
before his successor, Judge Perrault,
had received his commission. At the
meeting of court in Crowley this week
Judge Lewis appeared before the grand
jury and presented the Objectionable
article as the basis of suit for erimin
al libel against Editor Duson. The
grand jury refused to return true bill
against Mr.. son,-Lafayette Adver-
tiser
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18

Last Tuesday evening at about 8
O'Clock a gig occupied by Ollie Thomp-
son and Lewis Andrus was run into BY
a milk cart driven by Robt. Jones, col
ored, breaking the shaft loose from the
gig, frightening the horse and spilling
the occupants out in the street, when
the horse struck out at a break neck
speed over the railroad track and to-
wards the country to the west OF town.
The horse and remnants Of the gig
were found next morning some miles
from town. Nobody hurt.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-06-18
.ONsTABLE'S SALE.
3rd Justices Court, Parish of st. Landry
June IL, l892-lm

3rd Justices Court, Parish of st. Landry.
f. E. Stokes VS.. L. schnerb & Rro.
By virtue of writ of fieri faeias, to me al
rected by the Hon. J. A Smith, Justice of the
Peace, 3rd ward, in and for the parish OF St.
Landry, will proceed to sell at public auc-
tion to the last and highest bidder, on
WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of June, A: d.
1892, at 10 o'clock a. m, at the office of Hon.
j. A. Smith, in the town of Grand COteau, par
sh of st. Landry, the following described prop
erty, seized in the above entitled suit, to-wit:
Tho unexpired term of lease of l.. Schnerb
& Bro of store occupied by them in the
town of Sunset together with warehouse and
outhouses appertaiing thereto.
Terms-cash.
DAVID MECHE,
Constable 3rd ward, parish of St Landry
luna IS. got.