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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

The abandonment of the fast train
between New York and Chicago shows,
maintains the San Francisco Chroni-
Gle, that extremely rapid railway travel
is not popular, even at the East. The
regular trains on all the large Eastern
roads average at least forty miles an
hour, and several make as high as fifty
miles an hour. To increase this speed
by ten miles an hour requires con-
siderable extra expense, and as the
patronage on the New York Central,
which tried the experiment, has not
been liberal, it is only natural that the
company should withdraw the fast
train.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
Black Pearls Valuable.

Black pearls used to be held as Of
small value, comparatively speaking
They were first made fashionable by the
Empress Eugene, wife of Napoleon Ill,
who possessed q famous neck lace of them
which fetched $1,000 at auction after
the overthrow of the Imperial dynasty.
This did not include the single great
pearl forming the snap, which was pur-
chased by the Marquis of Bath for
$1,000. Mexico, Tahiti and Fiji supply
the markets of the world with black
pearls
The most extraordinary pearl in the
world is known as the Southern Cross. !"
It is probably the most remarkable
thing of its kind that nature has ever
produced. So far as is known it occu-
pies an absolutely unique position in the
history of pearls. 1t consists of a group
of nine pearls naturally grown together
in so regular ma nner as to form an al
most perfect Latin cross. Seven of them
compose the shaft, which measures an
inch and half in length, while the two
arms of the cross are formed by one
pearl on each side. All the pearls are of
fine luster.
This astonishing freak was discovered
by man named Clark while pearl fish
ing in western Australia. He regarded
it as miracle and, entertaining super
stitious dread of it, he buried it. In
1874 it was dug up again, and since
then it has changed hands many times.
Its value is set at $4,000.
How it came about that these pearls
were grouped together in such manner
no one has as yet been able to explain
satisfactorily. 1t has been suggested
that fragment Of serratcd seaweed may
have got into the shell of the oyster, and
that the succession of teeth along the
margin of the frond may have caused
the deposition of nacre at regular inter-
walls, 80 as to form string of pearls in a
straight line. The cross was found in
the she'll of the mollusk, just as it was
taken from its native element, without
any possibility of its having been sub
jected to human manipulation. New
York Advertiser.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
NOVA SCOTIA WOMEN.

A Nova Scotia correspondent of the
Woman's Journal gives some interesting
facts concerning the municipal suffrage
already possessed by Nova Scotia women.
1t was granted in 1887. She says:
"Single women and widows, having $3.50
income or $500 personally, may vote for
county councils, mayor, aldermen, etc.
They are, however, not eligible for Office,
nor can they sit on school boards or be
trustees. Married women have no rights,
not even as property holders and assessed
in their own names, unless their husbands
should chance not to possess any means
in fact, to be paupers-in which case,
if they swear to this fact, married women
may vote for their husbands (nstead of
them. Thus far the municipal franchise
has worked we'll in country towns and
districts and among certain wards in the
city About two-thirds of our women
electors vote, and the list increases an
nually."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

The new invention of M. Turpin, to
whom the world is indebted for the
discovery of melenite, the most power
full explosive in existence, seems des-
tined, if not to render war impossible,
at any rate, to render the artillery
now in existence altogether superHu.
ous 1t consists of a very light gun
and carriage drawn by two horses, and
four charges can be fred within the
space of fifteen minutes, each of which
throws $4,000 bullets over a surface
of 20, 900 square yards. The range O.
the gun is about two miles.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

'tKyphosis bicyclistarum" is ap
parently known in the West as we'll as
the East. "Why is it," asks the
Chicago Journal, "that as soon as q
young man learns the useful and
graceful art of bicycle riding he must
forthwith attempt to undo the work
by which he was made in the image of
his Maker and seek to transform him
self into hideous mesozoic dinosaur
or some other uncanny creeping thing?
The head goes down, the back is
bumped, the arms assume the position
of forelegs, and all that is wanting is
croak to pass for broken hacked
frog. There is no excuse for this
abomination. An erect attitude gives
the rider much better command of
the wheel. It is merely habit due to
too much pernicious and unhealthy
s.scorching." Women who ride wheels
do not stoop, Out upon this frog
squat, this hump-backed disease,
sskyphosis bieyclistarumi"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

Where has the buster gone? asks the
Philadelphia Press. It is still worn in
the West. It still appears on longer
lines Of travel. It's manifest and SEN
sible convenience endears it to middle
aged men. But on a short line like
that between this city and New York
the buster has disappeared as com
pletely as last winters snowfakes.
The clothing stores keep them on the
back shelves. Few are sold. The big
wholesale dealers do not sell dozen
where they once disposed of bales. In
a few short years this convenient gar
ment has been relegated to the country
districts and the provinces. Yet in
our climate, with our hot, dry sum-
nars, our abundant dust and long rail-
road journeys. the buster ought to
have become permanent article OF
clothing for all travellers. o..
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
SUMNER NIGHT.

| Oh. silent night!
| Oh, smothered stiffness
That settles down on dropping bough,
| Thou hold st the ca. tn ia breAthless slumber
Awake, but now.
| Gray mists arise
from dew-wet flowers,
That lend tn If fragrance to the night:
And Ianguid float on breath of summer
An incense light.
A pale moon shines
On weary grasses,
That bend their heads with mournful grace
Then sinks behind the white clouds floating
And wells her face.
Heat quivers oft
In lightning flashes
Along the soft gray northern sky,
And Eliminates the grand old forest
In shade near by.
A bird sings out
In broken stanzas
From yon tall bush with blossoms fair,
Dream songs that, sung in drowsy snatches,
Arouse the air.
And echoes find.
In hidden music
That soft descend from regions high,
And wake the sleeping, sultry breezes
To softly sigh.
IF. s. Ward, in New York Independent.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

Connecticut III now added to the list
Of States where the practice of medi-
cine is regulated by law. There are
now but nine States in the Union
where the practice of this profession is
absolutely unrestricted by any rules
whatever, and, the Boston Herald re-
grets to say, that Massachusetts is one
of the delinquent States. The only
equipment that is essential for the
practice of medicine in Massachusetts
is signboard hung outside the ply
sician's Office, and even this is fre.
quently dispensed with. Massachu-
sets is the irregular practitioners par
adiaa
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
ROUTINE OF PARTISAN LADIES.

Partisan ladies who are no Longer in
their freshest bloom are seldom seen in
the morning. They breakfast in their
rooms, served by their femme de
chambre. Their war paint is not well
on before or 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
when they go to their milliner's or dress
makers. From there they take turn
in the Bots, drop in to some rs O'Clock"
and then 90 to dinner. Afterward, ac-
cording to the day o. the week, they re-
ceive in boxes at the Francois or the
opera, and then run to a drawing room
concert or reception. San Francisco
Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

The Cincinnati Times-Star exclaims
Chicago that succeeded in planning
and executing an architectural and
artistic and mechanical triumph of
which the most imaginative Roman
poet in Rome's Augustan age could
never have dreamed, will continue to
be talked about throughout the world
and in places, too, where all other
American cities are unknown.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

Says the New York Independent: It
is the native custom in Tinnevelly to
marry with necklace instead of ring,
and the Church of England mission
aries there have consented to the
change in the marriage service so that
it shall read: ''With this necklace I
thee we'd" But with a delicious in
sularity some of the Angelicans at home
are protesting against the crime of the
change.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

When people talk about bad times
the Baltimore American thinks it
would be well for them to remember
that there is about seventeen hundred
million dollars ISL, 700, 900, 000) of de-
posts in American savings banks.
Savings banks are pretty good financial
thermometers for telling the real con-
dition of the country.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
Train Calculations.

asst train calculations are the favorite
pastimes with those who are mathemati.
cally inclined nowadays. 1t has been
figured, for instance, that the force of
propulsion which a train of four cars
with sixty-ton locomotive, running at
fifty miles an hour, develops, is equiva.
lent to a blow delivered by a hammer
weighing so, 900 tons, and that is almost
exactly the force of the blow of the ram
upon the Camperdown as estimated when
that warship struck the Victoria. -lDe.
troit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
FOR THE LADIES.
A DREAM PILLOW

A very pretty and Inexpensive dream
pillow, which will not only be conducive
to sleep. but will fill the room with fra
grant odors, is made thus: Fill bag of
soft, unbleached muslin, fifteen by
twenty inches, with lavender leaves or
balsam-fir needles and lemon-verbena
leaves; and cover the bag with lowered
China silk, which can be made into q
long slip, fringed prettily at one end and
tied with ribbon or heavy silken cord.-
ISt. Louis Star-Sayings.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
PROGRESS OF SOUTH AMERICAN WOMEN

PROGRESS OF SOUTH AMERICAN WOMEN.
A lyceum for women in Mexico was
founded in 1878, which takes up sub
jects that are considered essential to the
proper training of women. In the school
of arts there are many busy students,
from the young girl to the women Of
mature years, all of whom receive free
instruction in such branches as printing,
bookbinding, sewing. fancy work, knit
ting, trimmings, fripges, making cords
and tassels. Piano and vocal music are
also taught. The Mexicans bid fair to
rival the United States as well as Europe
in educating their daughters for that
higher sphere for which nature intended
them.
In Nicaragua the education of girls
has become quite popular, and in the
city of Granada there is a college where
several hundred young ladies are en-
rolled.
In Brazil boys and girls are now being
educated together in the higher grade
schools. When one can easily date back
to period in that country where girls
were kept under lock and key, "where
they would remain until husbands had
been obtained for them, such an attempt
at co-education means the beginning of
a new life for women.
Chile has the Institute Nacional, where
there are among the many male students
two or more women studying law. This,
however, is looked on with more dis
favor than if they had taken up the study
of medicine. In the Colegio Norte
Americana over $50 girls belonging to
the higher classes of society are study
ing the higher branches.
In the Argentine Republic La Senorita
Grierson has lately obtained her diploma
as an NJ. D. Sue is the first young lady
to lay aside all ancient traditions and
endeavor to win an honorable title for
herself.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
st. Landry Democrat.
BIZ I. A. SANDOZ.
QResousas, Is Louisiana.

The Japanese and Chinese languages
are entirely different, yet SO many Chi
nese words are used in Japan that
scarcely line in Japanese newspaper
is without at least one Chinese word.
In japanese novels the Japanese equiv
alent for the many Chinese words is al
ways given.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
A Lamb Among the Tenements.

One of the curious inhabitants of the
far east side tenement district is lamb,
which dlsports itself upon the low roofs
in the vicinity. 1t capers about appar-
emily at home and at ease, though there
is nothing green in sight save some of
the distant streets of Brooklyn. The
lamb was apparently once white, but it
is now dingy gray, and east side
associations promise to transform it into
a veritable black sheep New York
Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
THE BIGNESS OF SLEEVES.

The unobservant average man has ct
last come to realizing sense of the start
ling prevalence of big sleeves. 1t is
almost a wornout topic to women; the
biggest of their sleeves have been drap-
ing their arms for many months, and
they have arrived at the present enor-
nifty of rm-covering by subtle degrees
Of advancement. Two years ago sleeves
seemed ample in the reaction from the
smooth-6tting fashions of old, but sleeves
of gowns made two years ago bring q
pang of mingled sadness and amusement
when they appear nowadays before their
owners, whose arms have been hidden
away in the fulness of time by the adj
vancing seasons style. The unmarried
daughters of the Princess of Wales are
among the few women left in the world
who do not wear diversified sleeves
These girls must be distinguished in
some way from other girls, and their
mother wisely manages to keep them
always good deal behind the fashions {;
and at present she makes stand for
moderate sleeves for the Princesses.
Her own sleeves and those of the Duchess
of Fife are much larger this year than
last; and the most interpretive American
citizen, who cannot change the size of
his sleeves in any appreciable degree
from year to year, cannot fail to see that
now even the woman who scrubs his
office stairs no longer droops at the
shoulders and elbows, but puffily, in
calico, as others in organdies or silks,
asserts the bigness of sleeves To dine
now in state at the board of your neigh
Dor means no longer a vision of CLEAN
ing white arms of the ladies at table the
enveloping sleeves of full dress costumes,
too, have changed all that New York
Commercial Advertiser
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

MRS. AsENATH MILLER, who was born
in Vermont in 1887, died at St. Charles,
ILL.,, recently, lacking only forty days of
being 1O6 years old. When she first
lived in Illinois her only neighbors were
Indians. Phillis Jones, nearly 100 years
old, lives in Greensboro, Ala, and, of
course, sews without glasses. She is the
mother Of twenty children, and now has
200 descendants, representing six genera
tions.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
WHY DO WOMEN WEAR YEILS2

A well-known Cleveland oculist says
that he thinks wells were first invented to
give men of his calling work to do.
'Half of my work can be traced directly
to the use of the tilmy things that women
put on their faces either to accentuate
beauty or else to hide defects" says he.
eff women were to content themselves
with plain, unigured wells, if they must
wear them, like Othello, my occupation
would be gone. But the little dots on
them, through which women lock, help
to make weak eyes; given weak eyes, we
oculist are kept busy. Women 60 to
physicians and complain that they con-
tinually suffer from headache, particu-
larly after walk. If the physician in
quires he usually discovers that such
women wear figured wells, and the head
aches come from misuse of the eyes,
attempting to see things partly hidden
by dot in the veil The strongest man
with perfect eyes could not stand it long,
and it is no wonder that women get
headaches through the straining of the
eyes, Cleveland Sun and Voice.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30

The first coming machine was invented
by BruchaeE in 1863. 49,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-30
FASHION NOTES.

Some new skirts have avery wide box
plat at the middle of the back.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-08-10
Mrs. Mary A..Livcrmorc

Mr.. Mary \. Liyermorc concludes an
eloquent address before the World,
Temperance Congress Is follows:
DO not for an instant imagine that |
am hopeless of ultimate >uccr,> IN our
Temperance battle. Ii j. "A struggle for
the right. for higher manhood,
nDblcr civilization. Whatever i right Is
nj God. aud takes on His onnipotenee
and immortality. and ultimately, some
time. somew here. must aud will win.
1t cannot ultimately fail The victory
NAV be defe red, but it Will surely come
At last. for in the long run, the right al
Ways comes uppcrln">t. Never dues
reform eycntuatc a We plan it. How
many prophecies We're made during the
forty wears anti--aVery struggle. Of the
manner of death that should annihildte
the colossal evil of slavery. which.
swept elsewhere from the face of the
earth. had enfrenched itself ia America,
and WAS making Il last forlorn stand for
existence.
But whoever ,ketched the downfall of
slavery in this fashion. and made this
prediction concerning its doom: The
North and South will become embat-
tied. The North will put two million
men in the tirl |. the South Il million and
IA half. There will be Il four years war.
The continent will tremblc under the
tramp of armed men. the heavens will
glow with the fire of artillery. mil
lion men, North and South. will go
down into death. or into an invalidism
worse than death, aud five million men
and women, through this bereavement.
win lose their JOY in life and their hope
for the future. The very flower of our
young men will lie dead on the field, the
horses will be red with blood to their
brides, the rivers will run with blood.
\ mountain of debt will be heaped up
for postcrity to pay, as the price OF
nations redemption. When all other
measures fail to end the war. the Presi-
dent will issue Il Proclamation of Eman-
/ cipation.--not as "A moral measure, -
not a. religious ceremony,-but as Il
4 military necessity. and the chains
dropped from the limbs of four million
slaves
! Who made this prediction: No one,
+ 1t was never suggested. And yet that
! was the way out of the evil of slavery.
/ History will tell this story to our chill
dren. and chidren'- children, down to
the last generation. No one can yet see
4 the way out from under the awful curse
of the liquor traffic which overshadows
Us. But there is Il way out, and by
J faithfully doing the duty that first comes
to our hand. we shall ultimately find it,
and the time is coming. in the not far
distant future, when we shall celebrate
our temperance jubilee, as some thirty
years ago we reioiccd in the downfall of
slavery. Whether tli, side the dark
river. or beyond. baptized in immortal
ity. we shall all unite in the grand re-
frain. 'IIallcluiah, for the Lord God
omnipotent regneth.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-08-10
NOn-PartiSan Items.

Annual National Convention the first
week in Nov. at Isabella Hotel near
Worlds Fair Park. Chicago.
Non-partsan temperance work is
coming to the front; it has the approval
of our most thoughtful n.ru aud women.
Mrs, Ingram our National sec. will
look after the interests of our work at
the " orld's Fair during the next three
months.
The Belfast y. =. branch have very
successfully opened the third year of
their manual training school under Il
competent instructor. 1t is devoted to
working in wood.
We are pleased to report the l>a-
bella Hotel our headquarters at the
Worlds Fair Chicago is in full running
order. Several early visitors were as
signed to other quarters.
Maine Is we'll represented in the Ma
tional Directory. Besides Mrs. Florence
G. Porter of Winthrop who is Recording
Sec, we have three Dept. Secs. viz
Rescue Work, Mrs. y. G.. Paul; Indus
trial training, Mrs +. a. ID. burlington,
and Literature. Mrs. Porter.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-08-10
Fifteenth Maine Reunion.

Bv invitation of Meade Post No. 40,
G.. A. r.. the 1893 Reunion of the
Maine Fifteenth Survivors is to be held
at Eastport, Aug. 2i-5. The usual re-
duction in rates is given by the railroad
and steamboat lines; and IL delightful
excursion trip by the International
Line of Steamers is planned for the ac-
commodation of Comrades aud their
ladies living out of the State or any
where in Maine where Portland may be
easily reached by rail. The Maine Cen
tral sells half-rate tickets either to
Portland or Nanceboro. The lnterna-
tionsl steamer leaves Portland at 5.3O
Wednesday evening, Aug. 23d, and re-
turns passengers either Saturday morn
ing, or later, The fare to PASSPORT and
return is S356 from Portland, and Sl.OO
from Boston.
Comrades intending to be present
should address the Sccctary Maj. ii. y.
Shorev. at Portland, or the chairman OF
the local committee of arrangements,
Mayor 5. d. Leavitt. at Eastport.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-08-10
4 Woman of the World.

She had been talking pleasantly TO
two or three women: she made her
good-bves all cheerful and bright. and,
after She had disappeared, one woman
turned to another aud said in Il tone that
was Scoilng; 'Shc is Il thorough woman
of the world" Now in this case the
woman who had said none but pleasant
words. Who had stopped by bright
story the discussion of Il petty scandal,
was il woman who was As bfaNe-hearted
"A. any that eyer lived and who bore. not
ONLY her OWN. but the burdens of a good
many other people, yet she saw no
reason why she should iutlict her trou-
hlc> on her friends. nor why. while She
wa, in the world, she should not be in
it, best sense IA woman Of the world.
\ woman of the world is one who
feels that the story told TO hurt your
feelings is essentially bad form.
4 woman of the world is the one who
i. courtcou, To old people. who laughs
with the Young and Who makes her
self agreeable To women in all conditions
of life.
\ woman of THE world is one who
makes her good-mornIng pleasant
greeting. her visit bright spot in the
day aud her goodbye a hope that She
may come again.
i woman of the world is one who
does not guage people by their clothes,
or their riches, but who condemns bad
manners.
4 woman of the world is one who
does not let her right hand know what
her left hand does. She does not discuss
her charities at an afternoon tea, nor the
faults of her family at prayer-meeting
4 veritable woman of the world is the
best type of Christian, for her very
consideration makes other women long
to initiate her. Remember that Christ
came into the world to save sinners, ana
to be in the world and among 1t and the
people who make it, and To do your
work as "A woman of the world means
more than speaking from platform or
assumed elevation.
A woman of the world is one who Is
courteous under all circumstances ana IN
every condition in which she may be
placed. She is the woman who can re-
ceive the unwelcomc guest with snlle
so bright. and handshake so cordial
that in trying to make the welcome
seem real it becomes 50. y woman OF
the world is one whose love for human
itv is second only in her life.s DEVOTION
and whose watehword is unseliishness IN
thought and action. BY making sell
last it finally becomes natural to nave IL
F7orencc Wilson IN the -laga@ L"-
ljeS' IIoWp .JOufnui.