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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-28
PECULIAR CHINESE NAMES.
Some Queer Information Gathered In
Talk with . Celestisl.


Talk with . Celestial.
A person cannot thoroughly appreci-
ate the stereotyped nature of a Chinese
mind till he has talked to several OF
them on the same subject. The TACT
that they all object to beng wiser tnah
their forefathers easily accounts for TINS
similarity. But how about their occu-
pations and names?
How often have you wondered as yo"
were passing some Mongolian's Laundry
where and how he got that outlano'sn
name? With so many 'Sams ana
'.Loos' and "Lungs" it is a wonder to
Americans how they keep from entirely
losing their individuality. Just imagine
q telephone list in Pekin, where there
are 1000 900 people. If you wanted 10
ring up man named Loo there wouio
probably be three thousand or four
thousand people on the list ana most
of them Sans.
Just imagine q directory with 1orty
thousand or fifty thousand Lungs in 1t
and most of them Woo or Sam: 1t
would be worse than looking for John
Smith in an American dictionary.
And yet they do not get confused
Their names are managed in about the
same manner as ours are. Their last
name is handed down from generation
to generation, rarely ever changing, bu'
their first names vary as ours do.
Whenever a Chinaman marrles IN
China or anywhere else his wife takes
his name fore and aft and loses her
owp entirely. ,,
Az my laundryman puts 1t: She
havee no name; takke his name. One 90
for two
So they not only become one in the
holy bonds of matrimony but one IN
| name. ,
Cinnamon in this country naturally
take to water.
There are about half a hundred IN
| Atlanta and they nearly all wash for a
living. One keeps store on White
| hall street, where he sells fancy goods
| They say there is more money In tns
laundry business than any other, and OF
| course it takes little or no capital T
| start on.
All of the Atlanta Cinnamon deny the
general impression that when one OF
them makes $4,000 or $4,000 over here
and goes home he is independently
rich. They nll laugh at the idea ant
saw that he has to work just the same il
China.
When they intend returning they
I
in China it is sign of disgrace to b'
without one.
When a Chinaman dies in this coun
try. which rarely ever happens. II h'
has any relations at all they are obllgct
to SEQ that his bones get back home
1t doesn't make any difference abon
anything else, but they believe tina
they will be forgotten and unforsive
, unless their family can see and fee
, their bones.
In San Francisco there are six larg
companies that bring the Mongollan
to this country, and they have to gua1
antee to take their bones back free G
charge to their families. This they nc
only promise but really do or the men
bers of the company would be thorough
ly ostracizcd in China.
Cinnamon dying in Atlanta, howeve
do not indulge in that luxury. 1t is NJ
often that one dies here, but those tn;
have have been buried here.-Atlan'
Constitution.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-28

cred q peculiar motion of Pinkes's
feet, The tin ostrich and driver were
being slkillfully drawn apart from the
stock of toys and when the officer
moved off the toy was between Pinkey's
shoes.
As the officer disappeared Pinkey
dropped his soft hat, with which he had
been pretending to wipe his eyes. and
stepping back as he did SO the hat fell
over the toy. When he picked 1t up
and resumed his dabs at his dry eyes
knew the toy was safely his and wick'
edly rejoiced.
Then Pinkey darted off again and J
would have had great difficulty in fol-
lowing him had he not stopped every
time he came to a toy seller-the street
was lined with them-to inquire IL they
were suffering for fight, to black
guard them, and sometimes to snatch
off their caps to shy them under the
wheels of passing vehicles. Suddenly
we came upon a toy seller surrounded
Ivy a group of smiling people. F'1key
edged in and followed. The Trett;cst
child you ever saw. girl four or 1--WE
years old, was growing and laughing in
mad delight over a strutting tin ostrich
drawing the accustomed green man
and red cart. Her Joy was so hilarious
that a crowd of smiling people had
stopped to share it.
| "Oh. mamma, l want it." size ex
claimed at last, and she grabbed up TIL"
toy and hugged it 10 her bosom in ar
ecstasy of happiness. a woman yer:
| poorly but carefully dressed answered
in n low voice. in which there was sad
ness: "Cor.e, Dorothy, mamma won
buy it now; some other day.
but, mamma, love it. Please dive
it to Do'thy." i,
The woman took from a very small
purse a dime and offered 1t to thu
| vender.
Dem walking toys is two aitts." th'
boy said, with scorn.
The woman replaced the con. husbet
slightly. and, taking the chi!d's hand
said: Come, Dorothy. put down tn
TOW. Well buy something els. pretty.
Dorothy's eyes filled and her lip
tre,nbled. ..Nofing else is so booful.
she said. and, putting down the toy
walked av ny with her mother. choking
but determined not to make scene.
Pinkcy and followed them. 1t wa
several blocks before they turned int
q uuietcr side street, and then Pinke
overlook them. Here. little girl, di
is fer youse.'' said Pinlscy, producin
the toy he had sequcstcred. The chill
uttered 4 cry of delight and had tn
TOW in her arms in an instant
IL cannot buy It: / am sorry" tn
mother said.
""Tain't for sale" replied Pinkcy
Its a Christmas present.
"You are very kind boy" the lad
said. smiling sweetly: ''but 'ny litt
girl must not take your toy
The situation was becoming involve
and set about with social conpleNiti'
which were too intricate for Pinkey
primitive understanding. lie locke
a puzzled moment at the womal
, grinncd very good-naturcdly at u
child. and then, with startling sudde
. ness, turned and ran as If for his lii
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-28
A Buildog's Bodysuard.

An old man living in tumble-down
house was asked why he continued to
keep about his premises large and IN.
creasing family of worthless ours N'
small sizes. We'll, I'll tell you, ne AN
swered confidentially. Il have got q
large bulldogs regular fighting dog
which keep in my house. and keep
these other dogs around the place te
keep off anybody who might como
around to steal tie bulldog.
Journal
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-28

I'm the Country.-Office Boy
"Theres dozen people down stairs
wantin to see you." Editor-'Whatd do
they want?" q. R.-"'Leven NV EN-
wants to pay their respects, an one
wants to pay his subscription. Editor
Admit him and let the others wait"
Detroit Free Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27
'But you will not goq" she pleaded,

| But you Will not gO? she PLEADED
while shudder shook her frame.
1t was well he could not see the look
of agony on her face, he might else
have faltered. Oh the kindliness of the
dusk, for even if he would, it was too
late to turn back, having ''once put his
hand to the plow."
You could not love a coward, nor be
the wife of one," and he tried to speak
bravely. "But, Anna, sit here on this
arbor-seat, only little while, for my
minutes are numbered, and l will tell
| you all 1t is my duty to go to my
country's aid, yet l had not intended to
go till the impulse seized me to-day.
Amid the stirring scenes of the rally,
under the magic spell cast over me by
the thrilling strains of martial music,
and with all the while the echo in my
heart: Your country needs you,' l was
impelled onward with the tide, and en-
rolled myself among those who go to
the scene of conflict Under less agi-
tating influences, might have failed of
courage to take this step, yet knowing
have done right, l do not regret it.
Bravery, after all, is but finding out
ones duty and doing it."
And thus they talked on during the
time he dared linger, and all their plans
were for their marriage when the sol
dier should Come marching home
again" When the time of parting
came, the moon had just crept up from
the horizon, and they might have taken
its flood of light, as it came to them
after the darkness, as an omen of good,
but it only served to reveal to each the
white face of the other; showed to each
that the eyes of the other were dim with
their fullness of but half-suppressed
tears. knowledge which only gave
added pangs to the parting.
The good-bys came all too soon, for:
Early in the morning, before you are
awake, shall be on my way" George
had said. Before she should "awakel''
When will men learn that woman,
with either new great JOY or new
deep sorrow, does not sleep? And when
both lie in her heart, having come to
her at one birth, then indeed hath sleep
departed from her eyes.
In such partings it may indeed be
hard for the one who goes, but think
the bitterest of the potion is mingled in
the cup of the one who stays: and yet
it remained for the after years to show
to her that the pangs of parting are
not the keenest pangs the heart may
know.
Anna Brown had been left an orphan |
in extreme youth. Her home had since |
been with distant relative, who, hav-
ing no family of her own, had taken |
and cared for Anna for the sake of the |
sum derived from the latter's sufficient |
income in payment for board and neces- |
sary care. Love did not enter into the |
on the part of either |
party, so that while Anna had always |
had pleasant home, she had had mo |
one to love, none to caress," beyond the
usual friendships of girlhood. Her as
sociation with George Earle had made
a new epoch in her life, and gave to all |
her plans and purposes higher zest.
Something to live for" must come into
each life IN some form, ere will be de-
7eloped the latent 'best there is in u.s."
Letters from the front came often, !
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

to cheer otherwise lonely hours. Work
for the soldiers was entered into with
greater enthusiasm since of ''the SOL
diers" her lover was one. And then, as
months rolled by, the time dragged less
heavily, since some hope could be in
dulged that soon the cruel war would
be over, and she began to plan for its
end, and his homecoming, and the we'd
ding. Suddenly the letters ceased to
come. Again and again she wrote, but
no reply came back, and now wearily,
sadly, she awaited the end of the con-
fiict. She scanned carefully the pa
pers that came into her possession, vet
with dread each day that she might
chance to find tidings that disaster had
befallen him. At last the headline of
an item caught her eye. 1t read:
Marriage of Capt. George Earle and
Florence Fair, daughter of a southern
planter" She read no farther. She
had known of his anticipated promo
tion. so that Capt. George Earle" was
her lover. 1t could be no other. Fold
ing the paper, she laid it on the smoul-
dering Goals in the CRATE, took from the
drawer of her desk 4 neat packet of
letters-his letters-and added them to
the flame. She also unlocked casket
and was about to added its contents to
the sacrifcial fires, but her courage
failed her. and the shriveled sweet
syringa blooms were the one thing she
spared herself as a relic. Those fragrant
blossoms ne had twined in her hair so
long ago, Not yet two years, but to her
it seemed very long ago.
When the fire had died out, all the
softness had gone out of her heart; her
ewes had lost their wonted radiance and
d curve Of scorn seemed to have nodded
her lips anew. The house that had been
her home was closed. its owner having
died. and Anna mad boarded since with
strangers Now she bade adieu to
friends, and went-no one knew whith-
er, but She went abroad.
Twenty. years later and there would
be many changes to note, should we
stop to note them. Anna Brown is visit
ing an old school friend, whom she
found in an unexpected retreat soon
after her return from foreign shores.
Out of courtesy to her friend. she is
among those who have assembled to
decorate the graves of the fallen sol
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27
diers, to lay above their dust the tokens

diers, to lay above their dust the tokens
of grateful people.
But did you notice? While the speal1-
er dwelt on the bravery and faithful
ness of the sleeping. while he referred
gratefully to their self-sacrifcing devo-
tion to their country and their loved
ones, while he paid a glowing tribute
to their loyalty, not to country only, but
to parents, wives, sisters and sweet
hearts, till tears came to the eyes of
many, her eyes were dry and held a
look of skeptical hardness, and the de-
risive smile of scorn came again to the
naughty lips. Small wonder to us who
know her past, for do we not all meas
J ure all people by our estimate of those
with whom we have been brought into
personal relations?
Later she accompanied her friend to
their family lot in the cemetery.
! whittier she carried two beautiful
wreaths, which, she explained to Anna
as they went, were for the graves of
her brother and comrade of his, who
slept beside him. They were devoted
friends, and this one died after long
illness, and as he had no friends to care
for his body, her brother had requested
its burial in their lot. "And in less
time than he dreamed Of" said the sis
ter, che was lying beside him."
There was pathetic romance about
this poor fellows death" she continued,
designating the grave of the stranger
soldier as she spoke. ''He had no
friends except his betrothed, and at the
time of his death, she could not be
to learn of her whereabouts when his
recovery was despaired Of"
BY this time they stood by the head
stone, and Anna read the name George
Earle" and gathered enough additional
knowledge to bring her full assur-
ance that her lover-hers till death
was the soldier-stranger who slept be-
side his dead comrade. That soothed
her sorrow, to know that though dead,
he had been true to her in life. There
is sorrow deeper than that which the
parting by death brings to US. Her
eyes shed the first tears they had known
since she had thought him false.
Then, as her friend-more than half
suspecting drew a little apart, and
joined private groups, Annie knelt be-
side the grass-covered mound. and tal6-
ing from her corsage the cluster of
sweet syringas her friend had fastened
there and insisted upon her wearing,
she laid them lovingly above the dead.
Strange! for all these years since that
night of parting, she had never worn
them till now.
just then stranger, man with hair
and beard plentifully sprinkled with
gray, came from the opposite side and
not noticing her kneeling form, stopped |
and scanned the head-stone. "a strange |
mistake" he said, half-aloud. At the /
sound of his voice, Anna rose to her |
feet and would have turned away, had |
not the stranger spoken. |
Pardon the seeming obtrusivenessof !,
a stranger, but ] came to rectify mis- !
take which, though made years ago, but
lately came to my knowledge. 1t came
about as hospital case of mistaken
identity, so that the body inferred here
is presumed to be my own. My friend
who lies there-.noble fellow-thinking
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

[ could not live, arranged to have my
body sent here for burial. He was
taken sick himself, soon after writing
home to that effect, and others, in aim
ing to carry out his wishes, sent the
body of comrade who died, and who
was wrongly reported as being myself
-George Earle. But'-he checked him
self as he was about to say more-''I
am too fast. You We're placing flowers
there. Perhaps a friend of yours lies
here, and am myself in error
"I-I thought George Ealle-was
buried here" she stammered.
And you are-oh, you are Anna
Brown-or was" he said, recognizing
now voice and feature for she was not
greatly changed. The same hair IN
touched by frost. The same eyes, to
which recent tears had brought back
their wonted softness.
Il am Anna Brown still And you
are George Earle, l am sure, for you
have his features" and the CID cold
look came back to her eyes, and the
scorn to her lips, and the hardness to
her heart. George Earle, dead but true
to her till death, was man far differ
ent in her estimation from George Earle,
alive and false. He noted the change.
Have you no welceme, Anna, for one
who has had no aim in life, for the last
twenty years, but to find you?"
You forgot you were false to me.
You were married."
Married. And not to you? Never"
But read of the marriage of Capt.
George Earle and the daughter of
southern planter"
Then l am not the only George
Earle, as also find you are not the
only Anna Brown, when 1 try to find
you in a country full of people. That
you are true to your soldier lover want
no surer testimony than find in the
fact that. when you thought me dead,
you were laying my favorite flower on
my supposed grave. We have both been
the sad victims of some of the unavoid-
able mistakes of the war. Let us bury
the past and in the joy of the remain
ing years of our lives, forget its bitter
ness"
They were married before the syrin-
gas were done blooming, and she wore
them for her bridal lflowers.-Sylvia ST.
verthorne, in Housekeeper.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27
Dom, don't. don't h0 afrliI.
T,ar'T reform i. M. rraa tra1o %


One brief extract from Mr.. Georges
book sums up his tariff creed. On pare
81 he says: ''Those protectionists Che
mentions Henry c. Carey and Prof. z.
P. Smitn and Il. i. Thompson) are right
who declare that protection is the only
justification for a tariff, and the advo-
Gates Of a tariff for revenue only haze
no case" And it is. that unequivocal
pronounciamento for absoh1te free
trade in the literal sense of the term.
by man who calls land ownership a
sin, which democratic congressman are
scattering broadcast among farmers in
behalf Of tariff reform" Gentlemen.
you are working ont the perpctuat:on of
the principles OF the Mckinley tari IF.
And we rejoice in the success of ycur
S..Sprr,a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

L was in the de-
licious bloom
time of May.
Mead and lawn
were an eX-
nanSe of richest
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

The 'kOBHbN MANU- The TEOBBED J Z SC-
FACrCEE.4- FACTC8ER
We discover that the. The manufacture. Eho
fort mes realized by or sees n free raw Cna-
N .rfiflcturers are nO.terials q reduced cost
lon-er obtained sO.ely.1f his prJducts result
by rev iTl OF sturdy in-i'ng IN an increased con-
dustry and enligI.e-ei 5uIaDtion-nud aa ex.ec-
foresight but th.st the 5iol OF his 1narkets and
result from The discrin- orst 1T az tiyitv and
IN sttuC favor cf tle rOv4e.ri-n for his invested
crEment and are largely cFptal, cdn h5riiT trust
built uoOl undue exdc-. ths party who FIRST re-
tiOns from tn n sssesi ed any re:Orru IL he
Of the people e-i're@i-l ta-iff. then ju9gled WIN
dent Grover Clevel md. IL aad last ta-iy refused
in Office. WHshin=ton.ihin the relief ne sti4
d. G., December :, lSSS .leeds.-Mr. Grover
IClavellnd. Looking for
lJEiee, Providence, Z l.,
iApri2, is01
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27
Reduced Foreign Competition for Farmers
Under the Mckinley Act.

THE hope Of the foreigner rests in the
dcmocracy. their ..strong-siding cham
pion" On This side OF the Atlantic. Says
the London correspondent OF Western
Mail: NO American capital % speak
OF has been invested in tin plate manu-
factories in the states. With the i'leli-
hood OF the dcIn oc-1 IS coming back 20
power, the Yankee capitalist was Too
skrcwl to sink his dollars in such an
enterprise" We can understand the
B-itisher's joy 1T this news. but Src
completely 1T sec when il cones 20 as
signing.a Iaoti-e which woGld varrEas
jubilation on The part OF an American
citizen because of II. We rcjoiSc be
cause the news is untrue.
AnEHrcax free trtders pride thc.a-
ee,ves on the fact chat the majority OF
college professors are on their side, aa1
they assume thai tAe same condition
prevails throughout the world. The
truth IS that the professors who take
their views. already athsHght-0Gt. fEs.EIa..
English economists form the Tlajority
Of tn FIRE trade professors in this cou-
try; and on the eon tinelt OF Erro0e.E
particularly in Ge-rnn hat land of
universities sndbrillian stSreh rs,whiSll
stands easily az the head OF nations in
advanced educational progress = pro-
tectiouist professors are the rule
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27
Which WIN lie stand ere

THE "RoBBER" MA:5C-lTHE ''RoBBED'- / ksC-
FACrCGER. FACTTEER
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-22
"Crowd Poison"

"Crowd poison" is the way a physician
designates the peculiar fainting fits and
illnesses to which persons often succumb
in rooms crowded with people, or even
in the streets densely packed with hui
manity. Some persons yield much more
readily than others to this combined ex-
halation from many systems, and per-
sons are overcome by it, according to
the same authority, who can Withstand
the exhausted air of a room made close
from other causes. During the Colum-
bian pack in this city the foul air of the
crowded streets was noticeable. To such
as sat slightly above the sidewalk masses
the bad air was easily perceptible. One
realized that even in the open air good
air is not always to be had. And one
saw, too, how much valuable breathing
space will be secured, notably on close
and foggy days, when the thousands of
car horses now occupying it will have
been replaced by electricity and cable
power. York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-22
A Wen of Red snappers.

"The prettiest sight ever saw was
floating we'll full of fish," said Simon
Gerard, now at the Laclede. 'sSome
thirty miles from Galveston are what
are known as the red snapper fishing
banks. Several schooners are engaged
in the fisheries, and the red snappers
are brought alive to market. In the
forward part Of the schooner is the well,
which has a bottom of strong wire net
ting. through which the sea water comes
in. Into this well the catch is dumped,
and when luck is good the we'll will be
filed with the beauties, all of bright
red color, and from few inches to
more than two feet in length. 1t is one
Of the prettiest of the denizens of the
deep sea, as well as one of the most
toothsome. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-22
They Pitied Him.

Dimling was stopped by two footpads
the other night.
One Of them covered him with revolv-
er, and the other said:
''Turn over all your cash, and be quick
about it,"
"My dear fellows" said Dimling in re-
sponse to their urgent invitation, 81 have
no cash to turn over. I have just left a
church fair"
The footpads first satisfied themselves Of
the truth of the unfortunate mans story,
and then raised 81 25 between them for his
relief regardless of the fact that business
had not been good with them for some
time.-Harper's Bazar.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-22
The Pain and Pleasure of Greatness.

1t is conceivable that great, really
great man, of a certain type-for great
men, like little men, are of every kind
can derive satisfaction even from the
penalties of his greatness while those
penalties are fresh. 1t is when their
freshness has worn off that he begins to
realize that they are penalties which
shall be with him always, and from which
he never shall escape. Byron was de.
lighted when he woke and found himself
famous. It pleased him to know that
his name was the topic of every tongue.
He was amused, at least, to find himself
the lion of the London season, the hero
of the day. Then his pleasure was
turned into pain; he had to pay the pen
alties Of greatness. And he had to con-
tinue to pay them, with, as it were, his
hearts blood, his whole life long.
Only few years ago an American au-
thoress wrung monstrous payment
from his ghost. We little ones are often
as bad as and worse than Byron; but.
thank heaven, no man is likely to at
tempt to wiring payment from our ghosts.
ALI the Year Round.