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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-12-10

Ia twenty years old and has a
circulation Of 100000 copies a week.
1t is a combined story and family
paper, fully up to the times in every
particular, and handsomely illustra
ted. There is a Fashion Depart.
yment, and also a Young Peoples
Departments, either of which alone
lis worth the subscription price Of
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ments for clubs. Boys and girls
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ing the Ledger to regular customers.
Write for particulars, Address the
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and 1T Fifth avenue, Chicago.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-12-10
no Drive Always al,e Blues.

did you ever have The blues. when
you did not know what to do with
yourself. Reading is what most
people fall back on at such times;
and nothing is better drive away
the blues than q short crisp story or
. few good jokes. Our special offer
of 25 back numbers of the Wayerly
Magazine, Of different dates, for
.$l.W postpaid, will supply you with
about 400 short. clean and comple,e
stories, jokes, etc. The same amoant
of reading in the trashy Csc novel
would cost you $l2. Address.
.WAVERLEY MAGAZINE.
Box l72, Boston, Mass.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-12-10
Remember the Departed.

Ifyon have lost any Of your family,
remember hal Solomon Isaacs, OF
this place is agent for one of the
largest marble works in the county
and can supply you with tombstones,
he%adstoncs, slabs, ETC., at the very
lowest rates.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-12-10

E=.E
ID. B. Corley, a lawyer Of Abilene,
Texas, has leased for five years the
original Uncle Toms cabin, which is
situated on onsthe plantation of Mr..
Chopin, in Natehitoches parish. Mr..
Corley was in Natchitoches this
week for the purpose of shipping the
to Chicago for exhibition dur
ing the Worlds Fair. Uncle Toms
cabin is made Of hewn cypress logs
with a flooring of cypress planks,
and is said to have been jealoasly
guarded for twenty years.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-12-10

The barefoot cure is evidently the
coming craze in panaceas, says the
Pittshurg Dispatch. We have had
the rest cure, the athletic cure, the
Delsarte cure, ct al, aud now the
barefoot cure. Returning travellers
from Germany and Austria are
bringing the idea over with them,
and as it is vastly less harmful than
the cholera bacilli. which they might
have brought, it is all well to be
lenient with the lesser folly. The
barefoot treatment is a phase of more
than one process of cure. Under
ono authority it is carried. on a sun
ny beach, and the patients race
through the hot sands bareheaded,
barearmed, and With the logs and
feet bare to the knees. This is to
give the Il and heat, with their
health-giviug properties, free access
to the skin. According to another
,curist, to coin o word, it is o part Of
the hardening course, and though
you begin walking barcfooted over
smooth turf. you advance by running
through rough meadows, and later,
meadows heavy with boar frost, to
the climax Of being able to endure
tramping in cold water. As most Of
the cures effected at present have
outlived their novelty, at least we
may expect to find this brand new
barefoot eure eagerly seized upon.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-12-10
ats Pecnlfaritfee.

Pleasant the taste, agreeable
in its effects and an %unfailing cure
for female sickness. These are the
characteristics of Creole Female
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
MIR, wakeman,s Let,ers

trroh tne NEWS, NOV. A, 1871
Edgar L. Wakeman, whose graphic let
ters descriptive of foreign travel have
been SO interesting feature of the Amer
lean press during the past five years, has
mapped out for 1892 an itinerary which
promises to bring even more interesting
scenes and people under his keen and stu
dious observation. Mr.. Wakeman, a
handsome, stalwart man, makes his jour
neys in great part on foot, sharing in the
common life of the people of the countries
which he visits, and securing such thor
ough insight into their manners and GUS
toms as could be obtained in no other way.
OF all the men who are doing this kind of
work to-day he Is unquestionably the best
informed and the most pleasing and grace
full writer. He is a poet, too, and his
prose as well as his verses, which he from
time to time contributes to current publi-
cations, is full of imagery and marked by
strong poetic feeling. The first four Of
Mr.. Wakeman's letters of 1892 will tell of
tramp across Portugal from Lisbon to
Ayamonte. Roadside pictures of Portu-
guese villages, peasant homes and every
day provincial life will be painted with the
same fidelity and charm which have char
acterized the English letters recently pub
lished in this country. Portugal is coun-
try famous for its past achievements, and
it is outside the beaten lines of travel and
inhabited by a most interesting race of
people. After these letters will come two
describing a week in Morocco, and these
will be followed by a letter from Gibraltar
telling of the famous fortress and its sur
roundings. Majorca and Minorca, the Be-
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
RHEUMATIC.

Living in gsrret may be said to be
rheumatic dificulty.-Lowell Courier.
1t is the height of misery for q mai
afflicted with insomnia to marry q cir
who snores.-Christian Union.
The rain falls upon the just, but no
upon the unjust who has stolen the um
brella of the eformer.-Galveston News.
81 wouldn't mind my wife's having the
last word" said Mr.. Meekins, sif she
would only hurry up and get to it,
Washington Star.
Friend of Playright-Ten me, now,
what do you consider your greatest work.
| Pfaynght-Getting my plays accepted af-
ter they are written.-Boston Transcript.
A woman can give much more advice
about how to keep q husbands love on the
| hrst anniversary of her marriage than she
can at her silver wedding.-Elmira Ga
| zette.
Jessie-We missed you in our box at the
theatsr last night. Jack-I should have
felt out of place there. had such a cold
| couldn't speak above a whisper. New
York Herald.
Il have unique thing in the book
line," said the poet. $50 1 have heard t"
returned the Cynic. t'The complete first
edition of your own book, is it not
Brooklyn Life
She-Win you write to me on your re
turn from collegea e-Why-er-you
know can't write. She-Oh, don't ex-
pect you to write brilliantly or amusing
ly; write just as you talk.-Princeton Ii
ger.
According to a current literary note
Frank Stockton is SO painstaking an au-
thor that no frequently waits hours for
word. He must have his words sent him
by district messenger boy.-Chicago
Times.
Cobble-Billy Bender thsught he would
be funny, 80 he went to the undertakers'
hop logged out in shroud.
Stone-How was he treateda
Cobble-Oh, they laid him out-Clothier
and Furnisher
Unc' Eph was dilating on the merits of
a brand new Waterbury watch which he
had lately purchased. "Why, Mass NJ"
he said finally, "it's the peertest kim o.
watch ebber yo' see. It'll JUS tick off n
hour n less N harf de time it takes mos
watches. ."-Drake's Magazine.
He-Do you think I-aw-shall have a
good bearda
Barber (after close inspection-Pm
afraid not, sir.
He--Aw, weally. My fawther has aw
very fine beard, you know.
Barber Maybe you take after your
mamma, siri-Comic
Hicks-By Georgel but this is a good ci-
gar, the best cigar I've smoked for months.
Where'd you get thems Wicks-Some
that my wife gave me for Christmas |
present AS you say, they're prime. IN.
b. This is departure from the conven-
tional joke on the subject; but that has |
been repeated so many times that it is |
time there was a change-Boston Tran
script.
Had Seen Better Days-Mr. Sellit-l
Well, Uncle Epp, how are you gettin'
along these daysa Uncle Epp-Oh, I'm
gettin' along fine. It's a mighty poor day
don't make my two or three dollars Mr..
Sellit-You must be gettin' rich. 'Spose
you pay me that little bill you owe me.
Uncle Epp-Well, you'll have to 'scuae me
to-day, MIR. Sellit. You see, I've been hav-
IN lot of mighty poor days lately
Harper's Bazaar.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05

kelner's ingenious process for obtain
ing wood pulp has gained much stten
ton In Europe, the wood being dieestei
In solution of common salt at $50 tr
SoO degrees constantly electrolyzed. Two
| digesters In communication are EMPLOYED
| and the liquid is kept in continual cir.
cuianon from the electrolyzing vessel
over the wood in the digesters and back
to the electrolyzer, the latter separate
vessel In communication by means OF
pipes with both digesters.
The electric action splits >up the sal,
into eaustic soda and chlor oxygen com
pounds-these latter of we'll known
bleaching power, making the ususl s5h.
sequent bleaching unnecessary, and the
process Is said TO furnish at once a snow
white hore. Under this class of process.
es oelong also those pulping methods
"hlch employ chlorine gas as a disinte-
orator rather than a bleaching agent. the
enect OF the chlorine gas, or its active
oxygen compounds being to oridize the
lncfusting substances, so that thew he
cone soluble in very dilute alkali liouors
without the need of higher Temperatures.
the bleaching is done, as a rule. hy the
use Of hyposulphite or bleaching powder
But very satisfactory results are for
the present reached in electro chemical
bleaching processes, in which a five Der
cent solution of nagnesi1m chloride is
eieetrolyzed, the chlyrine developed act
ing as bleschsr, and then combining
again with the base, the same liouor be.
ing thus repeatedly used. 4 small pro-
portion of quicklime added to the salt
solution reduces the electro-motive force
required
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05

II
| One of the hod carriers ut work on ,
brick building out on the suburbs climbed
mp to the first story Thursday. Then b,
| fell, and the hod, the bricks and the ladde,
fell on him. When the debris had beer
pulled away the hod carrier was lying fac.
downward on the pavement stone sense
less. There wasn't a drug store or a doc
tor within half mile. a bricklsyer put
| on his coat and tore for the nearest patrol
| box. Meantime the hod carrier was lyine
there in rather nasty mess of blood, ap.
parently thinking about nothing in partic-
ular
The boss was fuming about, kicking
| blocks of wood into the street and swear
ing at the laziness of the police. The big
plasterers, who could drive a spike with
their fists, were standing around as help
less as children. At this time a young
woman in a blue cloak came briskly across
the street. She was pretty and rosy, with
lot of yellow hair drawn up tightly from
her temples, and she had a most decided
look in her bright, blue eyes. She brushed
the big fellows aside and asked briskly:
"What's the trouble here, neni"
zone of the boys has busted himself
wide open," said the boss politely.
'Let me see," said the pretty girl, drop
ping on her knees beside the hod carrier.
She took off dainty kid glove and with
her little white hand felt the mans skull.
"No bones fractured here" she said,
looking up at the group.
Then she noticed the pool of blood living
beside the mans right arm, and whipping
pair of pocket scissors out of her reti-
a Cba rrrN rlal, H.. y
sleeve of the brown flannel shirt 'fGood-
ness!" she said; can artery has been cut.
Give me piece of twine, quick"
The boss pulled q bit of coarse string
from his pocket and handed it to the girl.
She drew it quickly around the mans arm,
made loop knot, thrust pencil into the
loop and twisted till the cord sank deep
into the flesh.
''You hold this" she said to the boss.
aud the big man knelt down and grabbed
the lgature. Then she had some water
brought out. She washed the scalp wound
in jify. Then she cut among the loose
flesh with the scissors, and with plaster
and strip of linen from this same pre-
posterous bag she made a neat bandage.
Then she arose and viewed a pretty job of
emergency surgery with seasonable COM
placency. The patrsl wagon and the hod
carrier came round at the same time. AS
the wagon backed up the hed carrier
opened his eyes and saw the girl in the
blue cloak
care you hurt much, Mikel" the boss
asked.
"Naw," said the hod carrier. "Take
me somewhere that can get a doctor.
dom want no dom women monkeyin'
round me-"
The girl doctor in blue looked at him
quizzingly and laughed as she washed his
gore from her hands in a bucket of water.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
AN INTERESTING CHANGE.

Various reasons have been given for the
great falling off in savings bank deposits
in New York and Brooklyn, but the most
plausible one is the increase of the bust
ness of building and loan associations.
There are three hundred and eighty-five
associations of this kind IL, the state of
New York, which received $14, 500, 900 in
deposits during 1890, over 81, 500, 900 com
ing from investors in New York and
Brooklyn. The total amount of money in
vested in real estate by these associations
during the same period was $50, ZOO, 900.
The class of people who formerly placed
their savings in banks is the same who now
pstronize building and loan associations.
Multitudes of people have been enabled to
procure homes by the aid of these
associations, so that their existence,
even though they draw deposits
from savings banks, has been a
great benefit. Not all who join the asso-
Citations expect to buy homes Some mem
bers are merely depositors, and get much
larger return for their money than they
can get in savings banks. The building
members can afford to pay well for money
loaned them, because, after they accumu-
lated few hundred dollars, they can, with
the aid of their association, build or buy
home, move into it, and then add what
they had been paying in rent to their
regular deposit in the building and loan
associations, which rapidly wipes out the
loan. By this method, well conducted and
thoroughly reliable associations are enabled
to pay their depositors six or seven per
cent. interest, while the savings banks can
only allow four per cent.
The savings banks have for the last few
years had quite as much money as they
could proftably use, and they have had
good deal of trouble at times in using it.
They have no cause to fear the building
associations yet.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
TfYE WHALERACK-

" n SDASns
Make way for the "whaleback" Indeed,
the 'whaleback" has already made way for
itself. The first one was built short time
ago with view to the economical trans
portation of grain on the great lakes. Not
only did the whaleback find great favor on
the lakes, but it has also been found most
economical in carrying grain across the
Atlantic. These new boats have the ap-
pearance of huge cigar, the sides round
ing in above the water line as we'll as be-
low it. In this way enormous carrying
capacity is obtained and a decreased
resistance to wind and water. Speed,
roominess and decreased expense for
fuel are thus secured in what promises to
become permanent type among steam
ships. All the whalebacks that have been
launched thus far have been designed
solely for freight, and to this end no super
structure has been built above the deck ex-
cept small wheel house around the smoke
stack; but very interesting experiment
is to be tried in a whaleback now being
built at Wilmington, Delaware This boat
is to have double set of staterooms sup
ported above the body of the vessel on
stout iron posts. The waves may dash
over the hull, but they will pass harmlessly
under tbs staterooms. This combined
passenger and freight steamer of the new
type will have capacity of IA, 900 tons,
and is expected to make the distance be-
tween New York and Queenstown in five
days.
With the whalebacks on the water and
rapid electric transit on land we shall soon
be able to go to and fro in very lively
manner
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
EDIEORlAL NOTES.
General Butler is able to be about again

The railway dog of England known as
'Help," has died. He wore a silver col
lar inscribed. 81 am Help, the railway
dog Of England and travelling agent for
the orphans of railway men killed on
duty. My Office is 55 Colebrook row,
where subscriptions will be thankfully
received and duly acknowledged" He
brought more than thousand pounds into
the fund
A recently consecrated bishop of the
Episcopal church has youthful son who
not long ago asked his Sunday school
teacher who was the stingiest man men
toned in the Bible. The teacher saw
that the lad wanted the opportunity to
answer the question himself, so he said:
81 don't know, do youa" Eyes, Cesar"
was the reply. ''Why Caesars" asked the
puzzled teacher. "Why, don't you seer'
said the boy, "the pharisees gave our Lord
a penny, and wheI he asked them Whose
subscription is thiss' they said, 'Caesar's,' ,
and think he must have been a pretty
mean man to give 30 little"
A presbytery in the west of Scotland is
agitated with the problem whether it is
lawful to sell milk to duchess on Sun
day. Robert Kelso, a farmer aud elder of
the Free Kirk In the Isles of Arran, was in
the habit of carrying on such trade. His
minister demonstrated against 1t as desc
Grafton. In the camp of Israel Saturdays
supply of mama was always made to serve
on Sunday, and there should be no excep-
ton in the case of a duchess The kirk
session supported the minister and admon-
ished the elder. The latter refused to sub
NIT. appealed to the presbytery, and that
body, while praising the zeal of the session,
forbade the admonition.
According to the Meridian Daily News,
the State of Mississippi is finding out that
reputation is an expensive experiment.
Some years ago the State repudiated some
of its bonds, and in the new constitution
it confirmed that reputation. The News
says that to this reputation can be traced
the slow development of Mississippi as
compared with the other southern States,
for 1t has kept foreign Capital from invest
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
Now is the Time to Buy Out
side Garments.

You get 20 per cent. discount,
and have your pick from our
Whole Stock.
Fur Capes for S., reduced
from $1o.
Fur CaPes for $3.50, reduced
from $l2.5o.
Fur Capes for $3.50, reduced
from SIS.
Fur Capes for $12.5o, reduced
from 5000.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
,yr1y Gnnds.

Only 4 3-4c per yd for Cheviot
Sultings in pretty spring plaids
and beige cloths; 3,112 yards of
this New Years Bargain.
Only 7 I-2c per yd for Novelty
Dress Style Ginghams. Almost
half price.
All our Pattern Dresses down
to $5, $3.50, $40, $3.50 and
SIS; former prices were $40,
$12.5o, SIS, $3.50 and $24. 50.
No TWO PATTERNS ALIKE.
Choice styles All Wool Fancy
Bedford Cords at. 85c per yard,
reduced from $l.25.
Great assortment All Wool
Dress Goods at CSC per yard.
Marked down from soc.
All Wool Diagonal Home
sPuns, 50 inches wide, at 75c per
yard former price $1.oo.
All Wool Black Dress Goods
in a great variety of stripes and
fancy weaves at Csc per yard,
formerly 85c and ST..
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05

The English Dessicated Soups can
be had of A. A. Wayne & Co., II India
St. Boston, Sole Agent for New Eng
land States. Write to O. Ankcte1l, 26
So. William ST., New York, for a
quarter pound tin, making from to
26c: A good investment for q small
OUf10Y. dSd&w1mO
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05

iearic Islands, will next be visited. and
then Malta and its people and their life
manners, customs and superstitions will
be described. Three letters TELLING on Ts.I.
ian rambles will follow, and then fores,
travel in Galicis. This is the noTtbs.s,'
ernmost province of Austria. Its netro-
ieum fields, their workings, and psasant
workmen and the home life and eustons
OF the Polish, Ruthenian and Tatras nass.
antry of this seldom visited region viii he
attractive subjects for Mr.. Wakeman's nan
Returning to the British Isles Mr. Wska.
man will tell of some of the men and wo-
men and places familiar to American
readers. Altogether the readers of The
News will travel with Mr.. WakemanN
and there could be no better guide
through some of the most interesting
towns and regions the old world can
show. And they will do this not as
strangers might, but learning the secrets
of the peoples lives, as close friends
would do, and gaining from history and
tradition the charming story and senti-
ment that cluster about the old places
where humanity has for SO many hundreds
OF recorded years lived and loved. and
1oyed and suffered, and fought and disd
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
NEW HAVEN. CONN., TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 5 1892

Kirk" pass through exciting episodes.
The story in some places suggests George
Macdonald's best work without the ser
monizing. Recent issues of Lovell's In
ternational series, published by the John
w. Lowell Co., New York. For sale by
E. PsJudd.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05

We do not know, why
SCOTS Emulsion of cod-liver
oil is so useful in those simple
but varied conditions which
you know as having a
cough" We cannot explain
it: we only know the fact
from experience.
1t may be due to the COM
bination of tonic effects of
cod-1iver oil and the hypo-
Phosphites ; it may be partly
due to the glycerine. There
are many effects in medical
practice the causes of which
appear to be plain, but how
those causes produce those
effects we do not know at all.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, 1,a South sth Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scotts Emulsion of cod liver
oil-all druggists everywhere do. 81.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-09
New York Times.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The Times saws
edltorIally this morning. THE people
causing Grover Cleveland, the moral
revolt from the republican party and
the party issue OF the democracy, upon
the great ISSUE of tariff reform, pro-
duced a democratic landslide IN the
election OF yesterday. Cleveland and
Stevenson have been chosen for the
highest offices in the gift of the Arne.i-
Can people by a majority IN the cleo
torsl college so large that the meaning
Is unnlstskable."
New York gives Cleveland 40. 200;
New Jersey. 10000; Connecticut, 1900
to 1000. lnGlana's new ballot law
makes the counting in that state slow,
but at midnight there was little reason
to question that 1t has safely gone dem
ocratlc. The same Is true concerning
West Virginia. Ex-Governor Gray has
telegrspned the national democratic
committee that Indiana will give Cleve-
land 10000 10 $4,000 majority.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-09
New York Herald.

New YORK, Nov. 9-The Herald Gays:
IL is a democratic revolution. Grover
Cleveland has carried the country 10y a
sweeping majority. The latest returns
Indicate that West Virginia is in the
democratic column. New York gives
Cleveland and Stevenson majority of
nearly 10000. The democratic hosts
n the city of New York united
loyal rolled up majority for the
democratic candidates never equal
led IN any presidential election !;
1t will approximate $4,000. Kings
county comes acroes the trldge with .
majority arproxlmaung $4,000. The
other lower counties in New York
Queens and Rlchmond-did their
share Of rolling up the vast majority
of more than loo, 900 TO meet HARRISON 8
meagre plurality at the city line.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-09
RICH THE MAN
The State Is Probably
Safe.
The Count Is Slow
and Tedious
And Returns From
But Two Counties
Have Been Wired to
the Press.
The Democrats Claim
Some Gains.

3:l5 =. m.-The Free Press sends this
bulletins: Returns before q. m. came
in slowly, only two counties IN the en-
tire state are now complete, and those
are in the upper peninsula. Scattering
returns Indicate that the democrats
have one elector-at-lsrge and the first.
Second, Seventh, Eighth aud Tenth
district with congressman in the same
with the exception of the Eighth which
has pr baby been carried by Linton.
Morse has led his ticket handsomely.
but the slump in Wayne county
will likely carry Hall down with the
rest of the state ticket. No estimate
has been made on the legislature.
Wayne county is not complete. but in
dications are that only register and
possibly sheriff have been saved by the
democrats.