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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

before sunset to see if America was in
sight. but we were not in it, am. how
ever, determined to get there with both
feet if it takes all summer
2abh-Still heading for the west. / am
feeling more rocky than ever, though /
conceal the fact from the crew. Dreamed
OF Mrs. Columbus last night. Thought she
sat down on the we'll curb to cry and
tumbled over backward into the we'll.
Don Leguano. my private secretary, as
cended the mainmast today at noon, and
hardly had he begun to survey the sea be-
fore ne cried ont for the course of the ship
TO be changed that we might not run right
over America. Great excitement and re-
Joiclng for time, but it was ascertained
after awhile that Don had taken too much
swizzle and couldn't tell continent from
. dried herring. / got hint today that
the crew intended to rise and compel me to
turn back, but If they try it on they'll find
the court knows herself I'm that kind Of a
clothespin that when set out to discove,
America a or anything else I'm going to get
there or bust lung.
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engines, and when Leopold hoisted the
banner of Austria on the walls of Acre
Richard threw it in the ditch and placed
that of ST. George in its stead. He would
not get married in Lent or inaugurate a
movement on Easter, but a few days
later he had 5000 Mohammedan captives
massacred and wrote of it as "a service
acceptable to heaven"
All these were pilgrims and millions
more like them. 1t is estimated that
100000 Christians volunteered for the
holy war, and that at least half Of these
went on till death stopped most Of them
and truce the remainder. The net re-
suit was a treaty by Edward of Eng
land of the eighth and last crusade which
gave Christians the same rights at the
holy sepulcher which they had enjoyed
before the movements began. The last
act in the bloody drama was the capture
of Acre by assault, led by Sultan Ke-
laun, May 18, 1891. Sixty thousand
Christians were massacred, and the few
survivors sold into slavery
If it were not SO serious a subject, one
might commend to the easy going pill.
grims of this year the story of the gen,
tleman who. being asked the best route
from Washington to Richmond and the
cost of the trip, replied, .'The only time
| made it was three years on the way,
and it cost me a leg" 1t cost the
Christians of 1896 to 1891 about mil
lion legs to get to Jerusalem and as
many more trying to hold it, but for the
first thousand years of Christianity the
trip could be madein comparative peace.
Pilgrimage thither began very early, and
after the Empress Helena, mother of
Constantine the Great, went thither it
became the grand passion.
On setting out the pilgrim received
from his priest a peculiar gown and
cross, from his bishop a letter of com
mission and from his sovereign pass
port. In the Holy Land he gathered
palm branch, which was laid upon the
altar when be reached home as proof
of his journey, and SO returning pill
grims were called palmers. Many other
places are now points of pilgrimage, and
of late years many companies of Protes-
tants have gone from various parts of
Europe to Palestine and few from the
United States. The journey is now,
however, little more than pleasure ex-
cursion. j. FL. BEADLE.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

tons of the faithful, for in these days
steel and steam are the allies of faith
and the pilgrims leaving New York
harbor early this February expect to en-.
joy Palm Sunday in Rome and Easter
in Jerusalem, visit many places of i'll
terest between times and be in New York
again for the May festivals.
AS might have been expected, jubilee
years have greatly multiplied. The first
was proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII
in 1900, and the blessing was granted
only to such as had made pilgrimage
to the shrine of the apostles at Rome.
Once in century was the time at first.
but Popes Clement V, Urban VIII AMI
Sixtus ~ reduced the period success
sively to SO, 35 and 25 years. Now ju-
bilee is ordered even more frequently
that is, for any important event and that
of 1893 is proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII
in honor of the 50th anniversary Of his
conservation as a bishop. And it is bnt
justice to add that many Protestants will
rejoice with the hundreds of millions Of
Catholics that in this era of doubt and
unsettlement SO wise pontiff sits in the
chair of st. Peter
AS the pilgrim no longer goes afoot
and in q peculiar garb, SO he no longer
returns from Jerusalem with palm in
his hand AS the pilgrim no longer
walks, SO the crusader no longer fights,
and the palmer, or returned pilgrim, is no
longer sole survivor out of many who
started, for, though the Turk is still
nominal ruler of Jerusalem, England
rules the Turk, the Jaffa railroad is COM
pleted, and tickets are sold and baggage
checked from London to Gethsemane
So. it is rather matter of surprise that the
first organized pilgrimage from the
United States to the Holy Land was in
February, 1880.
On the 21st of that month the steamer
Wieland left the Hoboken dock with 101
Catholics bound for Jerusalem, and at
least Is times as many were there to see
them start. In the pilgrim band were
35 priests, including 2 bishops, and Is
ladies, all under the direction of Father
Charles Vissani. Franciscan, who organ
lied the band. Just previous to their
departure the pilgrims went in solemn
procession to st. Patrick's cathedral, |
the noted and beautiful edifce on Fifth
avenue, New York, where high mass was
celebrated by the Right Rev. Bishop
Wigger of Newark, and Archbishop Cor
rigan delivered an address to the pill
grims
They carried with them silken BAN
ner thought by many to be the finest
q 4 ~ TY - i
and religious and patriotic enthusiasm
rose to the highest pitch when it was un-
furled, for one side was devoted to the
nation and the other to the faith. This
banner was, or rather is, s feet high and
feet wide. The diverse side has a
hand painted representation of the resur
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
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A represents the pale moon calmly look
ing down upon this cold and cruel world and
wondering why all men and women cannot be
upright and good
B represents the eolored gentleman. the
beartrap and the watermelon all in one He
is carrying the melon under his arm and the
trap over his shoulder, and there is no guile
in his heart.
Morning comes, and Farmer johnson
chuckles as he strikes bee line for the
patch to see what game he has bagged. We
mercifully chop it off right here They
heard his voice a mile and half away, but
they could not catch his words We know,
hoWeyer-you and l. That is enough.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

"Do Yo' WANT TO KNOW wHAR Yo' ARE ATf''
"Yes, fourth time, and reckon yo'd bet
ter come out on the roof with the rest Of
u.s."
Roof Roof Has anything happeneds'
'sSunthin has happened. The house and
everybody in it has bin sailin down the ole
Missip since 10 o'clock last night, and
reckon yo' might want to know whar yo'
was at.
.Of course want to knowi'' yelled as
jumped out into water two feet deep on the
floor
Waal, we're jest passin the lower land OF
Joe Totten's plantashun, and by the way
we've come it's a matter of 48 miles back to
whar yo' turned in last night. No reason
toget excited, stranger. We're right in the
channel and hev got the right of way, and
the ole woman and children hev got good
grip on the roof and are rayther injoyin tho
scenery. No danger tall. allus like to
know whar I'm at and didn't know but yo'
felt the same way and would lay it up in
me if didn't tell yo'.,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
THE DIARY OF COLUMBUS.
Faithful Account of the Voyage of the
Great Diseoverer.

Faithful Account of the Voyage of the
Great Discoverer.
Tth-Out Of sight of land. A good deal
bigger millpond than had any idea of.
Mrs. Columbus continued to wave a towel
at us as long as we were in sight. Sorry
couldn't get an accident insurance policy,
but in case of my death she will 20 home to
her father and save him the wages of a
hired girl. Crew in good spirits, with Don
Manuel singing I'VE Won't Go Home
Till Morning. Wish knew just where
America was and what kind OF show
them Yankees give n foreigner
18th-Still sailing to the west First
time have been away from home all night
in five years, and feel rocky. This is Mrs
Columbus regular baking day. and hope
she had good luck with her eruptings.
Those chaps who thought America was
right over there about 30 miles" will feel
cheap when | get back. Don Palolnino,
captain OF the Maria, came to me today
and offered me $50 in cash to turn back but
refused. I'm afraid he'll incite the crew
to mutiny, but I'll die game This is no
Fourth of July excursion or cornerstone
laying, but an honest, straightforward at
tempt to discover America. About noon
the ship was electrified by Don Latalini
shouting "Landl landtn but it was soon
discovered that Don was liar and horse
thief I've got to have a talk with that
fellow in private II he thinks America
can be discovered by lying, shall haycto
convince him of his mistake.
19th-Same sort of water all around us.
with nothing in sight. Crew begin TO
mutter. Just heard Don Giboni calling me
an old crank and declaring that none of as
would ever see home again. The cook has
reported that the store of onions has played
out. but with the help of Heaven we will
try to get along some way Perhaps it is
wicked TO expect to have onions and dis
cover America too Took soundings today.
Let my whole fishing line $50 feet) run out
without finding bottom, but perhaps we
happened TO be over deep hole just then.
This is Mrs Columbus day for dyeing
carpet rags and cleaning out the wood she'd
/ went up to the foremast crosstrees just
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

citizen of African descent who knows where
there is a melon patch.
B represents the farmhouse OF old Farmer
Johnson, mile away. The aforesaid melon
patch belongs to him, and there is one socker
of watermelon he means to exhibit at the
county fair.
G represents Farmer johnson himself.
D represents the beartrap he has just set.
e represents the socker of watermelon,
which the farmer fondly imagines can't get
out of the field that night without somebody
getting his heel chawed up by that beartrap
f represents the colored gentleman spoken
of about mile back. He is hiding behind
fence, and the grin on his face beats that on
the farmers all hollow.
z represents the sun going down in a hello Of
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
A TREAT For ALL.
THE WORLDS FAIR CORRESPOND
ENT OF THE ARIZONA KICKER.

Something About the Remarkably Gifted
Gentleman Who Will Represent the
Greatest Weekly In the World at the
Windy City.
tCopyright, 1898, by Charles B. Lewis.l
ALWAYS ON ToP.-THE KICKER takes
great pleasure in announcing the fact that
1t has secured the services of Colonel Jim
Keogh to proceed to Chicago at once and
act as its correspondent at the Worlds fair
We had been negotiating with the colonel
for over three months, and the arrange
ments were satisfactorily concluded only
day or two ago While not as widely known
as some correspondents, he has a peculiar
style, which will ultimately bring him rich
es and glory. The story which we published
last week entitled, 'Scalped of My Scalp,
or How Lost My H 'ar, " was from the facle
pen of the colonel, and we have already
been offered s25 by New York publisherfor
the privilege of making dime novel of it.
We do not violate any agreement in saying
that we are to pay the colonel s. per and
furnish him an outfit. The latter will CON
sist of spotted cayuse warranted to buck
40 jumps to the minuteif occasion requires,
a lasso, Il buckskin suit, sombrero. two
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
"A Meek Man.

A demure looking little man approached
the naughty clerk in q grocery store and
Cert, said the young man. We have
ground coffee. y
mo other kind?"
Nope This is the best ground coffee on
the market =
But don't want it, = and the little man
braced up 4 got some sugar here the 9th.
er day with sand in 1t, and Idon't want
coffee with ground in it, You must think
I want the earth ~ Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
TO THE HOLY CITIES.
PlLeRlMAGEs TO ROME, JERUSALEM
AND ELSEWHERE.

The Pilgrims Now on Their Journey Are In
deed Favored Contrasts with the olden
Time = The Crusadcs Protestant Pill
grims-steeI and Steam Devotion,s Allies
The year of jubilee has come again, and
already Catholics from all parts of the
world are turning toward Rome or other
places consecrated by their faith. No
longer in peculiar dress and marked
with cross, no longer afoot and bear
ing small bag to receive the contribu-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Much In . Name.

Little Boy-My first name is awful ugly,
but you has got real pretty name, hasn't
you?
Little Girl-Yes, I think it is.
Little Boy lmeditatively)I guess you
didn't have any rich ole bachelor aunts. did
you?-Good News.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

rection. The figure is shown on white
damask silk surrounded by vines, with
the passion flower intwined. The balde-
qnin above bears as an inscription the
10th verse of the 11th chapter of Isaiah:
.sAnd his sepulcher shall be glorious !"
On the reverse side is a figure of an
American eagle soaring aloft with the
stars and stripes-in one set of talons
bearing the emblems of war; in the other,
the olive branch of peace. From his
beak streams the motto, ttE Pluribus
Unum." These are only the principal
figures. The golden fringe, tassels and
general tracery are of the finest. TWAS
Subscription to the Clarion 81 4 year.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Manufacture of Textile FABRICS.

The manufacture of textile fabrics in
the United States is not standing still by
any means. The new mills erected last
year afford employment to 81 500 per-
sons
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Economical.

What makes you think your city eous.
fns are econornizing, Uncle Silass''
why, took dinner with 'em one night
in town, and they only gave us about Ia.
blespoonful o. coffee apiece. Harper's Ba-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
( Honest t Toiiers.

Il make my living from the soil, /" said
the farmer.
''And SO do T." said the washlady. New
York Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Too MANY.

Mr.. Figg-You should remember, my
son, that there is nothing attained without
labor. You need not expect to get some
thing for nothing
TOMMY get lots of Eckin's for moth
ing anyhow. dianapolis Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Mineral Specimens.

Mr.. Arturo F. Wendt is engaged in
mining in Chill, and is preparing a fine
collection of mineral specimens which
will be exhibited at the Worlds fair.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
4 Nice Place.

What is house without a babysn asked
o lady writer, and an old bachelor editor
replied, It is comparatively quiet. z Tit
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Always In Order,

Magles What will the great rush be for
this summer Europe or Chicagos
Biggles-N Neither. Money. Vogue
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
Surprssfng You Knou

Carrie Now, there are certain things I
don't care to have the world know.
Mattie-Indeedl You look younger than
that. Detroit Tribune.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
The Egyptian Question,

France 60 England on the Egyptian ques-
tionl You had better not tread on my tail.
England am treading oa it.
France Well. mean with both feet. ~
Texas Siftings.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15
THE DIAGRAM MAN.
The Tale of a Colored Gentleman, Water
melon Patch and a Trap.

Thar, bgosh!'
The sun is just sinking to rest in old Che
mung county as Farmer johnson utters the
above never to be forgotten words, and a
smile rich in buttermilk settles down on
his wrinkled face to remain for the next
hour. Let us hasten to explain the situa-
tion before a catastrophe occurs:
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-07-15

Subscription to the Clarion 81 so a yean
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..CRADOCK'


be served tree
served will
tour parishes be roed September 1884 yeangs
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Subscription 81 year, IN advance.
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Subscription to the Clarion slH year.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-21

The hosting of the union jack, however,
may not be an unmiXed evil, for it will save
the natives from the civil war into which
their fanatical religious differences would
probably plunge them but for the restrain
ing influences of superior power. The
Catholic, Protestant and heather factions
are ever ready to fall foul of each other, and
it has been more than limited that the an
tagonism has been encouraged by their re-
ligous teachers. The English will retain
the Soudanese troops of Emn Pasha, who
have been guarding the northwestern from
tier from the incursions of hostile tribes.
and it is believed they are strong enough
to repress any disaffection that may be TO
mented by King Mwanga or his councillors.
Though he represents a dynasty of abso-
lutte sovereigns whose line extends back to
the time of Queen Elizabeth, the royal
presence of King Mwanga is more pictur-
esque than imposing Nevertheless he is
not entirely without royal attributes, as he
showed few years ago when he undertook
to root out the European influences that he
foresaw threatened the independence of his
kingdom. His efforts were in vain, for in
spite of his sanguinary persecution of the
white men and their native converts the
power of the intrudcrs kept on increasing
until ultimately the king and his council
were constrained to negotiate and sign a
treaty with the British East Africa COM
pany that conceded many privileges to the
detested Caucasian.
Uganda is not entirely a savage land.
Many of the chiefs are able to write Arabic
and understand the significance of a writ
ten contract In fact, they consider no
agreement binding until it is put in writ
ing, and, though their young ru err cannot
write, his mark upon the treaty is attested
by the signatures of his principal chiefs,
and the part he took in the negotiations
showed that he keenly appreciated the bear
ing of every stipulation upon the future of
his country.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-21

course no one is able to say, but Sart-
well declares that from the appearance
of the pickerel he would undoubtedly
have continued taking in clubs and
hooks until there was no more room for
any in his mouth and jaw, and Sartwell
is sure that there was room there for at
least a dozen more. 1t Is not likely that
any fisherman ever caught pickerel on
three separately baited hooks before.
AT Olean, once, George Smith landed
one of these savage pickerel, an S-pound-
err, in his boat. He had caught couple
of smaller ones before that, and one of
them, 3pounder, was still alive on the
bottom of the boat. Smith threw his
new catch in the boat, and went on
trolling. Presently he heard a great
co mmotiol and looking behind him was
amazed to see that the S-pounder had
tackled the 3-pounder, and was getting
away with it in great shape, the small
pckerel's head aud several inches of its
body having already disappeared in the
depths of the big one. Smith had to
knock the latter in the head with the
handle of his boat paddle before he could
rescue its victim.
The writer spent one summer along
that part of the Allegheny river, and
after he had been there a week or two he
noticed that no one kept ducks or geese,
although the situation seemed admir-
able for raising such fowl. He asked a
native one day why 1t was.
1T simply can't be DONE" was the re-
ply. 1--WE don't attempt to raise geese
or ducks because every gosllng or duck
ling in a brood will be pulled under
water and dined upon by pickere on its
first outing on the river, as sure as the
river runs. Even old geese and ducks
have been seen to disappear mysterious
ly beneath the surface, never to come up
again, more times than once. You
might as well try to raise cotton in
Greenland as to Iase ducks and geese
on the Allegheny river. Some folks
think our pckerel are crossed with mus
kallonge. | think it's with shark"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-21
The PECos BRIDGE. TEXAS.

Another great engineering work re-
Gently completed in Texas is the very
high cantilever bridge over the Pecos
river. This bridge, some $50 feet high,
while not the highest in the world, is
one of the highest, and at the same time
one of the most considerable railroad
structures ever erected. When the en-
gineers locating that part of the South
ern Pacific railroad came to the Pecos
river, they wanted to go directly across
with bridge; but more timld counsels
prevailed, and instead of taking a flying
leap over canon more than 300 feet
deep it was decided to make detour of
25 miles by way of the Rio Grande.
This was eleven or twelve years ago.
This longer route, though the curves
were sharp and the grades steep, was
expensive to build and maintain, and
more expensive to operate. 1t was a
heavy tax on through freight, and sew
eral years ago it was decided to take the
flying leap of the Pecos, and thus avoid
lIlC anu SulNCo ouN iOuECi maui
The Phoenix Bridge company did the
work. The entire length of the bridge
Is 2ls0 feet from abutment to abut-
ment. There are two cantilevers
l72 feet inches long each, and one sus-
pended lattice-girder span of so feet.
This suspended span is hung between
the two cantilever spans on eight mas
sive bars, and expansion spaces are left
at each end of several inches where it
should join the cantileYers. The intense
heat of the summer sun makes this space
for expansion a necessity. In addition
to these spans there are eight lattice
spans of 65 feet each, one plate-girder
span of As feet, eighteen plate-glrder
spans of 80 feet each, and sixteen plate
girder spans of 30 feet each. The width
of the floor of the completed span is %
feet, part of which was taken up by a
walkway on either side of the single
track. The bridge has factor of safety
of FIVE; that is, 1t has sufficient strength
to bear five times the pressure made by
continuous train of the heaviest modern
locomotives moving over 1t. From the
ground at the bottom of the canon and