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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07
a Silk WraNner.

The silk Japanese wrapper is not at
the head of the wrapper list. 1t is made
of ofJapanese silk, which is firmer in tex
ture than China silk. and thin layer OF
wadding, plentifully sprinkled with
sachet powder, is quilted between the
lining and the outside. 1t is embroid-
cred up and down the front and on the
long sleeves. A silken cord and tassels
ties around the waist, and long. deep
pockets are in either side. Pointed,
heelless Turkish slippers are worn with
this wrapper, and to be thoroughly con.
sistent the hair should be done in high
bow-knots inclined toward the front.
kimono is the name by which this gar
ment is known in its own home, and it
has quaint jingle that endears it to
every feminine heart almost as much as
the garment itself. and if there is one
thing girl will never be without after
one experience it is this soft. warm.
light. becoming garment-N. y. Press
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07
MEALS BY SCHEDULE.
Close Figuring on What Can Bs Eaten
While Waiting for the Train.

While Waiting for the Train.
II have only two minutes to get my
breakfast and catch my train" said n
tall man in an Irish fricze ulster to the
waiter in n railway station the other
morning. "What can You give me in
the smallest possible time? Take into
consideration, too, the fact that have
left my false teeth under the pillow at
my hotel"
1--WE have just the thing for you. sir"
and he Immediately brought cup Of
coffee and q piece OF lemon pic.
The gentleman sat down. and in less
than minute from the time he gave
his order was rushing toward the Office
for his ticket.
.'IIc made pretty good time re-
marked n customer who sat at the next
table.
"Oh, that's nothing" replied the
waiter; I'VE beat that every day. l
once knew Il man who came in here who
had only sixty seconds in which to get
his breakfast, buy his ticket and reach
his train
"What did you give him?'
1.-Two soft baked apples and 4 glass
OF milk. He finished in just fifteen
seconds. took another fifteen for the
saw him he was walking up and down
the platform smoking cigar, impa-
ticntly waiting for the train to start
II suppose most passengers who come
in here are in a hurry?'
Never saw but two who were not.
and one of these was a soldier who had
lost both legs in the war, and the other
was Il tramp who was waiting for the
night freight.
when Il customer comes in and says
he wants something to eat in a hurry J
ask him how much time he has or what
train he wants to catch. Now, l have a
list of those articles that I can serve
and which can be eaten in exactly the
time the passenger has to spare. To
| the customer having one minute for
luncheon serve baked apples and milk;
! if he has two minutes, lemon pie and
cold coffee: three minutes, apple pie
! and hot coffee; four minutes, slapjacks
and coffee: five minutes, ready cooked
| sausages and mashed potatoes; six min
utes, fishballs and hash, cold roast
beef. and SO on. tell you we work on
springs all the time" And the waiter
rushed off to serve another customer
who appeared to be in a hurry Boston
| Herald.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07
lie Had Found 1t Hard Work.

He dropped into an armchair and
closed his eyes, apparently utterly cx-
hauStcd.
'.Becn working hard?' inquired a
friend who had dropped in to see him.
Working hard he returned I've
done three days work in two hours.
splitting wood?'
No. indeed
Putting in coal, perhaps2''
20. no.
Haven't been trying to clean stove
pipe. have you?''
NO, sir. pay man to do that"
Then what have You been doing?'
''Well. You know that boy of mine.
You mean Willie?''
YES"
20. yes. Bright boy he is. too.
What's he got to do with it?
"Everything, sir, everything! I've
been trying to get fifteen minutes work
out of him. Chicago Tribune.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07

AcW . fach woman, and that Il was BY
means of his twenty-cent piece that
this wonder had come to pass, His
money, he reflected, had won the prize.
So. did not the fortune belong to hims
A dozen different schemes for POSSESS
ing himself of the money passed through
hts mind, and at least he decided upon
q desperate plan.
''Well, Brigitte, any news?'' he said,
as he entered his hoWae, where the
woman was busy At her usual tasks.
NO, master, except that ono of the
chickens has the pip"
1t was clear that she had not ye<
heard the news, and the Did man
chuckled with delight at the thought Of
his own shrewdness. He began by
ordering Brigitte to kill fowl and
cook it for dinner with a piece of porls,
gave her money to buy coffee, suGat;
and a bottle or brandy. and then went
down to the cellar to fetch some wine.
what evil spirit has got into him?''
thought Brigitte in amazement at this
unheartl,of extravaganza. but when the
meal was ready, and two plates set at
table, her wonder increased at the
prospect Of company to dinner. Old
Landry, however, told her to sit in tho
place opposite him, and when she re-
fused to take such a liberty he ex-
claimed, sternly:
''Do as I tell you, yo- old idiot!"'
Then the woman, having heard that
it was dangerous to oppose the whims
OF a crazy man, sat down trembling on
the edge of the chair, and ser master
having filled her plate and glass said
persuasiveiy:
go on, my good woman, eat, drink. "
and when they had got as far as tad
coffee he exclaimed, suddenly:
"Brigitte. I'm going to get married"
''Indced, master" she replied, II
think you arc right. You are not too
old"
"Well, since you think that, we shall
! be married as soon as possible, YOU and
l." he said.
After the chicken and pork and wine,
Brlgitte thought she was prepared fol
anything. but this was too much.
You arc joking" she gasped in ter
ror, but the other hastcned to explain
that he was growing old and had no re-
lations. no friends, and he did not wan'
| to die all alone like dog; besides that,
he was not ungrateful. confound it
| And Brigittc had saved his life. He
could not forget that.
The banns were published immed.
atcly, and the wedding took place Il
| the great delight of the whole village
Then the strange pair returned to thei'
home, where n new servant. engaged ir
Brigitte's place, awaited them. They
had hardly got inside the house wher
the bridegroom asked. mcrrily:
My dear, where did you hide you
ticlsct?"
| What ticlect?" said the bride. takinf
off her spectacles and looking wonder
ing'y at the speaker.
why, tho lottery ticket, No. "a
which you bought with my twent.
| cents
"Oh hnsband."' cried the old woman
chow You have frctted about tina
ticket: wanted to please you. but lot
teries are no good"
Have you lost it?" he gasPed
81 never had it to lose, for bougfl
sausagcs with the money! rcPlie'
Brigitte, quietly; "the weather was S.
cold. and I am very fond of sausages.
Translated from the French for n. Y
| Epoch.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07

A Familiar Face.-She-"So you've
been out west? Did you have a nice
time?" He-"Only SO, so. l went to
n party one night in Denver expecting
to have n good time, but there was only
one familiar face in the room" She
Whose face was it? Some friends
from tho east?" Ue--"Yes. 1t be-
longcd to q clock made in Connecticut
-DctreIt Free Press
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07
Solving the Problem.

Domestic-Im much obliged to We.
mum. fer sendin' me to that cookin'
school SO long. Here's me diplomer
wot ! got terday.
Mistress (who thinks she has solved
the servant girl problem)-I am de-
lighted. Now I presume You can cook.
Domestic-Please. mum, the teacher
said we couldn't be expected to remem-
ber all we learned, an we must buy her
cooking book, an keep it by us all tn
time.
MISUNDERSTANDING. I will get you a
copy.
Domestic-Thanhee. mum. An please,
mum, wud We moind sendin' me FOR a
few terms to boartlin' school till learn
to read.-N. Y. Weekly.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07

HUNTING ON THE ROSEDOwN AND
L Hazlew plac' 6, will after this date be con-
sidercd as tres passing. JAS. i, BOWMAN
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-07

"A New Jersey minister married If
teen couples within sixty minutes the
other day. Fifteen knots an hour isn't
bad. Lowell Courier,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-30
NUMBER 2S.

whelming majority presented his name
to this convention. A minority of the
delegation protested in the hearing Of
the nominating body against the
imminent folly of imperiling prospects
that looked as fair as any that dawned
over the Democracy. Now the proph-
esy was not carried out or realized.
But why? We are told that Mr.. Cleve-
land carried that State. We are told
that he was successful at the polls, but
does not the gentleman remember that
the victory was due to Burchard rather
than to this amasing popularity which
appears so great before the eve in the
spring time and so impalpable in the
cold lights of November? [Cheers and
hisses.] Isn't this injustice to Burch-
ard enough to make his clothes fit him
untimely in his grave? Is it not
enough to make his bones turn in their
resting place? Is there a greater
proof of ingratitude of republics than
this forgetfulpess of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, or of the credit due
to the memory of the preserver and
savior of Democracy in the year 1884.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-30
Who is He?

up in Northern Minnesota says a
physician in 1.-THE St. Louis Globe
Democrat" Lives man who entered
the service in 1861. He was a very
dull fellow, almost a fool. During one
of the sorties made by the Confeder-
ates at Donelson he received buck
shot in the head. The surgeons could
not find it and the wound healed. He
returned to duty one of the brightest
men in his company, and in time be-
came second lieutenant. At the close
of the war he returned home, married
superior woman, prospered in bust
ness and was elected sheriff of his
county. Three years ago his head be-
gan to give him a great deal of trouble,
He came to St. Paul, and I located the
buckshot and removed it. He is now as
healthy as ever, but is the same stupid
dolt that he was before the fight at
Fort Donelson.''.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-30
Except by the Harrisonites.

If there was one sentiment at Mime
apolis stronger than all others it was
to the effect that holders should
let private citizens say who should be
the party nominees. The office-hold-
ers were shown no quarter but were
roasted on all sides by the followers of
all candidates. We doubt if there was
ever a convention held where the
sentiment was SO strong. A good rule
to adopt in the future would be that no
of1ice-holder should be sent to a con-
vention as delegate. They are too apt
to look out for themselves rather than
the party.-Fergus Falls Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-30
A NICE RECORD.
An Alliance journal Sareasticaliy Touches
Up the ''FOes of Monopoly"

An Alliance journal Sareastically Touches
Up the "FOes of Monopoly"
The St. Paul Globe gets off this
unique bit of sarcasm. I'm any event
the hope of the foes of monopoly in
Minnesota and the nation rests with
the Democracy" Then the hope must
be so small as to be utterly invisible.
To begin with, the Democracy has not
given us any alarming reforms in
Dakota county. In the State it gave
us a speaker of the house who ruled
that it took a majority of all the men,
bers to reconsider a vote, which ruling
was in the direct interests of the rail-
roads and prevented any railroad leg
islation whatever at the last session;
it was a Democrat who was caught in
the act of trying to bride members to
vote against the Donnelly rate bill in
the session of 1887; it is Democrat
who has caused a scandal in the leasing
of mineral lands; the leading Demo-
Gratis of every legislature regularly
vote against any reduction of the rate
of interest. The record of Democracy
in this State may not be very long, but
their opportunities have been limited
In national affairs they have given US
a standard oil senator from Ohio. to be
succeeded by a millionaire mine owner,
who works convicts in his mines; they
have refused to give the people fnan-
cial relief even when they have
majority so large that none could say
them nay. Perhaps the Globe will
point out when and where the Demo-
cracy went on the war path for
monopoly, and then again perhaps it
won't.-Fa1maingtoaa Tribune (Alliance).
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-30
His Name WIN Live in History.

Blaine's name will live in the his
tory of his country just as long and be
fully as CONSPICUOUS as if he had been
president. But few of our presidents
will appear before posterity in more
far-reaching luster. A star cannot i'm
prison its own brightness, nor can time
or circumstance obscure the fame OF
the man who started the great move
ment to bring all the nations of the
New World together in closer COM
mercial relations. - .Brainerd Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05
RlOtOus Vice.

For several months past, camp of Cocopah Indians has been estab- lished near the river bank west of the Quartermaster's Reservation. Their numbers are not precisely known, but are from 50 to 100 ofboth sexes. The presence of these Indians here is ostensibly for the purpose of get ting work. Those who are acquaint- ed with the facts know that they hang around for no good purpose, and that their presence is a stench and pestilence.
 The orgies which daily and night ly take place in and around this h. dian camp, if told in cold-blooded truth would shame the most inde- cent page ever printed. The Coco pahs are here to pander to the low est passions of the whites. Boys, young men and even older men, and having some show of respecta- bility, are patrons of dirty, greasy squaws whose language contains no term for female virtue. The father shamelessly sells his wife or daugh- ter to the white man. and takes most of the proceeds.
 We have been told that men with families in this town have been seen fondling Cocopah squaw and talk ing apparent delight in flthiness calculated to turn a white mans stomach. That the Indians get all the whiskey they want there is lit tie doubt. There is also no doubt that they are infested with most loathsome diseases, which they are spreading broadcast.
 
 These facts have been laid before The Times by several reputable cit izens with the necessary names and testimony to back up all assertions. The abandoned building of the Quartermaster'S Reservation might furnish Dante with pictures rivaling his Inferno. Indecency is not even hid but is paraded almost publicly. Nothing but sense of duty com pels us to refer to this unsavory subject. The Cocopahs ought to go.-Yuma Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

The Tombstone Prospector says : News was brought in town last night by persons from the San Simon valley that George Mont gomery was shot and killed by un- known parties at his camp near Silver Creek, in the Chirachua mountains. Montgomery was we'll known in Cochise county, where he had lived for ten years. He had few cattle and some good mining claims. No particulars are at hand. A telegram was sent from the Pros
 pector office this afternoon for par ticulars, but nothing had been heard up to the hour of going to press.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

SAYS the Globe Belt: The Inte- rior Department, in the plenitude of it's power, issued an order ex- cluding citizens not in government employ, and domestic stock, other than those belonging to the agency and Indians, from the reservation with a view of preserving the nor als of the Indians and husbanding surplus grass for the sustenance of cut-worms and grass-hoppers, In order to render the mandate effec- tive, provision should have been made for fencing the reservation. otherwise, cattle and horses, not fla miliar with conventional lines or the law of trespass, might unwit- tingly incur the displeasure of the Interior Department by violating its order.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05
Adventures in Sonora.

The San Francisco News letter in q late issue contained the following : D. c. Pickett, the veteran miner, who is we'll known in this part of the country, especially in San Fran cisco and Oakland, has been having remarkable time of it lately, judg- ing by a letter just received from him. He is superintendent of the Quijotoa mines, in Southern Arizo- ma, and after short visit here, re- gently, he left for his headquarters again, accompanied by exMayor Leatherwood, of Tucson. Accord ing to his letter, they got on merri- ly enough until they passed the Gulf, near the Colorado river from which point they made for San An tonic, a small Mexican town. They hired carriages, an outfit, and then set out on their way overland, but they had not gone far before they came across a guard of Mexican soldiers bywhom they were prompt
 ly arrested as smugglers. Despite their entreaties and explanations, they were taken into custody, and after being held as prisoners for three days, they were turned adrift, their carriages, etc. being confscated After considerable suffering, they got across the frontier again, and to an American cattle ranch, where they were hospitably welcomed and entertained. LeatherWood then left for Nogales, where he will prepare a remonstrance against his treat
 ment, while Pickett, purchasing new horses and another outfit, set forth for Quijotoa once more.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

But little attention was paid by the Prospector, last night, to the report.that gold had been discover ed, and claims bing located along the gulch near Watervale. But the simple mention of the fact caused a ripple of excitement that has been growing all day to-day, and our citizens may not be surprised to see the find develop into a genuine placer boom. The location of the find is north of the race course, in the big wash which runs from the gold belt in the vicinity of An telope to the San Pedro river near Fairbank. At the point where the gold is found the bed rock comes to the surface, which is one of the few places along the wash where this happens. The theory is that the gold comes from a rich quartz vein in the vicinity of Gold Camp, and that the closer one goes toward the head of the wash the richer the dirt will be found to be. There are a number of prospectors who will prospect the gulch now that gold has been found, and sons rich dis coveries are probable. A large number of citizens visited the gruond today and claims have been located all along the vicinity of the Young claims. Water is scarce and most of those who went down brought back dirt to town and pan nedit. Several prospects whichPros- pector saw would show about 25 cents to the pan. The gold is not by any means what might be term ed fine. Don't get excited over it but if you have nothing else to do, take a hand in finding out what merit there is in the new ''d1ggins. :" I-Prospector.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

With reference to the Wyoming quarantine law, and how strictly it will be obeyed by shippers, the Stock Growers says:
 One Montana firm has ontracted for the delivery of $50 carloads thirty-fve to forty cattle in a car at Orin Junction, and such is the eagerness of other firms to join in the fight that the Santa Fe and Burlington roads have been called into requisition and many contracts have been signed for carrying cattle from Pan Handle, in Texas, in a roundabout way through Wichita, and west on the main Burlington line in Nebraska to Morecraft, Wy oming.
 The Union Pacific is making con- tracts at $76 car from the Pan Handle to Orin Junction, a distance of about 1 ,000 miles. The rate to other points where cattle can be un- loaded for Montana is $96. The cattlemen have gone too far to re- cede,t the attorneys representing the best legal talent of Colorado and Wyoming have been secured to stand off the Governor in the courts,
 Baxter's ruling on the transporta- tion of cattle to Montana is declared by them to be entirely without sup port in law. In the meantime the cattle agents of the lines leading to the seat of war are getting in their work and making contracts for the biggest business in fast cattle trains that has been known in years.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

THE Anglo-American in recent issue quoted the following from the South Dakota Union. It is said that Mexico and the United States governments contemplate underta- king an irrigation enterprise, for the reclamation of vast stretch of now barren country on both sides of the Rio Grande river in Texas and Mexico. Such a project would from every point of view be advisable, inasmuch as it would not only make habitable a now uninhabitable sec- ton, but would tend to strengthen international relations. Perhaps a still more important result would be to fill up the border country with a law-abiding people, and thus put an end to the lawlessness that has so long been rampant there. The valley of the Rio Grande is now a wilderness and rendezvous for bandits of both countries, whose extermination could be brought about in no more certain way than by populating the region with in- dustrious farmers.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

SENATOR HIsCoCK in recent con- versation in speaking of Harrison said: We have got 10 nominate him whether we want to or not. Blaine is too sick to take it, Alger's war record shuts him out, Sherman is more unpopular than Harrison, and we will be obliged when the conven- tion meets to renominate him, or repudiate the administration of the last four years.
 In my candid opinion, 1t don't make much difference who we nom- mate; he is sure to be beaten. The Democrats will nominate Cleveland and the whole country seem to be going wild over him, and he will be elected hands down. Harrison is unpopular here and everywhere else and Blaine is the only man we could have any chance of electlng, and It would be hard squeeze to elect him. But he is out of the race; he is almost as good as dead now, and if he were to be nominated, 1 do not believe he would live a week. There has been more disappoint- ment, more heart-burning, more dis satisfaction over Harrison's ap- pointments and those of his subor- dinates, than there has been during any other administration within my recollection. He has tried to carry water on both shoulders, and be both a civil-service reformer and a partisan Republican. No man could be both until he is a very great man, and even Harrison's warmest admirers have never ac- cused him of greatness.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

THE Journal-Miner says an inn portant decision by Assistant Sec retary Chandler has just been re- ceived at the Prescott land office. On November 19, 1887, the Atlantic and Pacific railroad filed list of selections of land in the indemnity strip of its land grant, which was rejected by the local office. The railroad company appealed to the commissioner of the general land office who affirmed the decision of the local officers, and an appeal was then taken to the Honorable Secre- tary of the Interior, who now closes the case by affirming the formerde- cisions and cancelling the selection, Williamson Valley and Walnut Caeek, and this action of the sec retary gives the land to the settlers.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-05

The Journal Miner notes the fact that Mark Smith has been in con- gross six years and has presented it with three bags of seeds. It seems useless 10 again enumerate the diff ferent bills presented by him and the speeches made in these six years as the writer of the article would undoubtedly be unable to under stand what he meant. Taking everything into consideration we think three bags of seeds entirely to liberal for such men. MT. Smith will again be honored by the terri torial democrats notwithstanding the fact that there &as been a con- spiracy among weak-kneed demo- crats and mugwump--republicans to down him.-Nogales Record.