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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
As she tbouoht. she uaholt.,i the inn

As she thought, she unhot:ri the inn
She could not Get away fast enough, onCn
| she was outside but leaving the COR
wide open she sped of along the wagon
track, with its two wide ruts and central
CX track. into the radiance Of the oilI.r
night. After few moments she wax
cncl uD completely, the aches began T.
leave her muscles, the clouds cleared
from her brain, she fairly flew along.
Two O'Clock; she got off and walked for
| half-a-milc, listening, enchanted, to the
song Of a mOonstruck prairie lark.
Three O'clock, and by and by Shc dis
ccrncd in the fading light the road to
the halfway house Sac looked rcso-
| lutcly away from it, 1t seemed to coax
her, to whisper OF the long, lonely stretch
ahead, Of the Indians in their tr'ecs, in
| the hollow: of host of vague ant! nllne-
less tcrrors; of how lonely and weary
and dufensclcss she was, Oh that vast
plain, twenty-five miIcs-twonty-t five
miIc5-aod the halfway house flashed
past and was soon left far behind
She peti!lpl mechanically now; it WIS
growing dark in the West. but in the
| East the dawn Was faintlv breaking.
She impcrccptibly Jagged, her cycll''S
were heavy, she reused herself and SAW
the first Of tie farm fields! Her heart
thrObbcd; her temples thr"bbcl; every
pulse in her body seemed to start into
wild action, tinG!rs ran through her
limbs; she faucicd Il dozen times that she
had come to the last field, and as she
looked to sec, only miles Of s!lavcn har
vest fields stretched before her. She
began to doubt whether she was in the
right way, then she laughed, for there
was only one way, one road one track.
She heard voices calling, Lizzic's voice,
Auntics voice; she grippcd the handIc
bars and pclaicd faster, she labored hard,
but could scarcely move her wheel; it
was like riding up q hill; suddenly she
fell off, and as she shook herself to-
gethcr and Weakened up, she found her
self few yards up the small ascent that
ended her midnight pilgrimage. Slowly
and dreamily she pushed the wheel up
the road, sometimes standing for mo-
ment with her left hand on the rcugh
rails of the fence, and her eyes closed in
involuntary siumber. The carly morn
ING Weakened. the air was full Of the song
of larks The sunlight touched her wan
checks and glistcned from the tears Of
weariness that gathered in her haggarl
eyes. Her pretty lips were drawn and
pale, dust c!'lng to her little hat, and lay
thick on her golden curls.
When she reached the gate she would
have fallen, but that Watching Auntie
came running and caught her in her
arms. Il am tired, - she said softly, and
fell sound asleep.
"And Narr:' Oh, his leo knitted finely,
and the Doctor sal that Maud was q
born surgeon. ami only nrr cDtrcaticS
compelling him % mcdltc with her band
aging. "And :hen!' Wei, in ,!io fail
She married him. "Who?" Why, tie
Doctor. of course, = Outing.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
Buying Back Their Own Diamonds

The De Beers mines employ 5000
whites and from Is, Geo to 90, 900 Of the
natives as laborers The natives, Mr.
McGregor said, will steal diamonds and
no way had been discovered to prevent
the thefts. Under the law the native
laborers are kept in Enclosures called
compounds. They sell the diamonds
which they steal at q few shiIings per
carat. They are purchased, although
the natives are ignorant of the fact, by
agents Of the De b eers Company and re-
turned to the company. Within the last
two years, Mr.. AlcGregor said, the com
pany has paid in this way s., 800, COO for
diamonds which had been stolen By the
natives. Mr.. McGregor said it was cX-
pected that the dry diggings would be
worked out in two years but they have
been worked since 1871, and there are no
indications Of u bottom being found.
To prevent the soil from caving in
shafts LOCO feet have been sunk, and
the mining is done in chambers similar to
that Of American coal mines = Balti-
more Sun
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
Advertising AS a Pill.

Most of the bowling about advertising
not paying, is done by men who have
done little or none of it. They at one
time in their lives perhaps, took one
small pill of advertising and because it
did not effect a complete cure of their
malady dull times; they threw away the
box and refused to take any more. The
men who use up box after box of these
advertising pills are those who enjoy the
most robust and vigorous commercial
health, and who are lining their pockets
with competence. Printers ink un'
locks the Golfers of the rich, as we'll as
unties the old stocking of the poor. 1t
is the key to success in business, and the
sooner business man finds this out and
uses the key, the sooner he will be
abreast of the times and take nobody's
ust.-LDsasVills IN. " Ireeze.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
AN UEPUBLISHED POEM BY
SCOTT.

The following lament for Glengarry
was written by Sir Walter Scott, and has
never been published until its appear,
ance in the current BJackwood's, having
remained in the possession of the family
ever since it was composed. Under
date of Mavis Bank. Rothesay, April II,
1893, Miss NIacdoncll writes:
"My father died in January, 1923, and my
mother came to Merchiston Castle, Edin-
burgh, where she lived from May, 1929, to
Ma, 1880. 1t was til re [ first saw tn !
Death Song and was t"ld by mother that
Sir Walter Srott had W ltlen it and SEM it to
her. believe Ahe got It soon q ter W. all
came south in May, 1928, and it has always
been in what5Ver houses we lived ever
since"
GLENGARRYs DEATH SONG.
For the star from The Nor!h from its orbit is
thrown;
Dark, dark is thy sorrow, and hopeless thy
pain,
For no star e'er sh,ll beam with its lustre
again,
Glenga ry-Glengarry is gone eyermoro
MISUNDERSTANDING We II ever dcpiOre.
Otel of the warrior who never did yield,
0 tell of tho chief who was faIchlou and
6hiel l.,
o think Ct the patr OF. most ardent and kind
ThVn Oh for Glcngamy in whom all We're
joined.
The chieftains may gather-the combatants
call,
One cham on is absont-that champion
was all;
The bright eye JUS and valor may
flame,
But who now it to ho2or and
fame?
Sec the hguJ Dana now .ossd. she's wrecked
on the - u!
See daunt css Glengauy on the verge Of The
grave.
See his eap-see that cash, and that eye now
80 din!
And thy heart must DO steeld, If it bleed not
for him.
Arise thou young branch Of so noble stQm,
Obscurity marks not the worth Of a gem;
o hear tue last wish Of tn father for thee:
"Be all to Thy couutry, G. engarry should be-"
Why sounds the loud ribroch, why tolls the
death bell,
Why crowd our bold clanSmen to Garry's
green vale?
IT'S to mourn for their chief-for Glengarry
the brave,
IT'S to tell that hero is laid in his grave.
0! heard We that anthem, slow, pealing on
hi h!
Ihe shades Of the valiant are come from the
eky,
And the Genii of Gaeldoch are first in the
throng,
o list to the theme oftheir nriaI song.
It's "welcome Glengarry, the clansmen's fast
friend"
It's 'welcome to joys that shall ne'er have an
end,
The halls of great Odin are open to thee
o welcome Glengarry, the gallant AID FREQ"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02

l replied by giving 50 shr:II ana
deaFenlng whistle a WT li"g"js that
katchiba stopped his ears, ard le!apsing
into smile OF admiration, t''vI- 2 glance
st lhc sky from the doorway t. see j
any Sudden effect had been proiu'e1<
IVY histle again,' he said, and o''&e,
more performed Ike the whistle Of a
locomotive.
'IIat will do; We shall have it, " said
the cunning old rain maker, uuI proui
OF having so knowingly ohtajf"d ''r"Nn-
sells opinion on his case he tuddl"H oil
to his impatient subjects.
In a few days sudden storm of rain
and Violent thunder added /" Natrhj':,'4
lenown, and after the shower horns "rt"
blowing aud drums beating III iD""r ii
their rhicf. between our>ri}rs, le |rn-
Hldrrcd my whistle jntu!Iin.r. -- loUth''
Companion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
ANIMALS CAN COUNT.
Crows the Most Accomplished .irith-
mct:ciins and Dogs are Next.

4 Russian PHI: >ician has been mixing
! some curious experiences 10 find out how
! far animals can count He declares that
the crow can count mp t. ten. a7l is
thereby superior in arithmetic t. certain
| pulFnc~iHn tribes Of men who cannot ret
! beyond 1--WE or siN.
| The doctor had dog, which was &C.
custOmc1 to bury the bones it found,
each one IN a separate place in the g4,-
den. One day, wishing to test tie
animals power Of counting, the muster
gaze it no less than twenty six bones.
which We're all hu!ie one after another
in special hiding places. The next day
the dog was given no more bones, and
he was forced to dig up the old ones.
Without any hesitation he recovered ten
and then came to a stop.
After whining ana running about as
if IN a state Of great pcrpIeXitv new
idea seemed to enter the canine brain,
end again the dog began to dig UP the
hidden bones, this time adding nine to
the total before his memory again failed
him. Then there Was q second period
Of whining and pcrplcAity, after which
the seven remaining bones were found
with some difficulty.
The doctor concluded from this that
tventY-siX was too large Il number for
the dog to take in all at once, and that
he hal been obliged to remember the
bones, as it were, in three shorter series
The cat. it would SEEM is even less than
an arthmetician than the dog, not being
able to count as far as ten.
Before giving bis cat its regular piece
Of meat the doctor would put it under
the animals nose and then withdraw it
tivc times in succession. and it was only
the sixth time that he would give the
cat the morseI. This number was re-
pcatcd every day until the cot became
perfectly accustomed to waiting five
times, but would spring forward of its
own accord at the sixth presentation
Having THUS demonstrated that pussy
was able to remember up to six, the
doctor tried TO seven, but without sue
cess As soon as he attempted to per
form the experiment with higher num-
bcrs the cat became confused and would
Jump forward for the meat at the wrong
time. The number six, therefore, would
seem TO be the limit of this cats power
Of counting.
Not less interesting were similar cx-
pcriments with horses. In the village Of
PeNoe, the doctor found peasants horse
which was used for ploughIng, and
winch had acquired the hnhit or count
Inc the burrows aud stopping Tor rest
regularly at the twentieth; 80 confident
was the ploughmnn OF the accuracy OF
his horses calculations that at the END OF
the day he used TO estimate the amount
OF work done, not by counting the tur-
rows himself INT 5y simply remember
INC the nnmber OF times Ills horse had
StoNped to rest.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
Suicides by Cats.

Now and then one sees paragraph on
its rounds describing hov cat com
111itted suicide by getting in front Of Il
street car and letting the wheels 20
across its neck My friend, the motor
man, does not believe in the suicide
theory. He said it is stupidity and slo"
thinking that costs til, CT her life.
'Them animals" he says, gets con-
fused You can see that they don't want
to get hurt no mere nor man would, but
when they see cars coming both ways
and horses and wagons, and crowds on
the i lcwal!ls, and hears the noises, they
dent Know which way to go. They lose
their senses most at night, because tie
lights seem to scare en-. Sine" lie been
running & trolley car I've run oIy. hall a
dozen of IN and they all sqnattcd doNn
On the rails. But they di1l't tGeaQ SUI,
eide. "-lRQston Globe,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
Stopping Rain by Explosions.

1t is singular, in these days when
explosions in air are thought to bring
rain, that no enc has spoken of Six
teenth century experiment 20 stop rain
by the use Of gunpowder Benvenuti
Cellini tells US in his memoirs that when
Margaret of Austria entered Rome it
rained heavily. II pointed several large
pieces OF artillery in the direction where
the clouds were thickest. and whence a
deluge of water was already pouring
then, when l began to fire the rain
stopped, and at the fourth dis
charge the sun shone out Boston
Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02
Valuable Treasures.

Uncle Sam has some very valuable
treasures Of gold in the National
Museum. They are of great worth i'll
trins;cal!y, apart from The historic in
terest attaching to them. Among these
are three massive baskets of solid gold,
each as big as four pound candy box.
They are gifts to General Grant from the
cities of London, Ayr and Glasgow, re
spectvely, containing the freedom Of
those towns There is gold card of in
vitation to ball, Hhich was sent to the
hero Of Appomattox by friends in San
Francisco. 1t was enclosed in silver
envelope with the address engraved N
the outside and an ordinary two cent
stamp affixed Also there j.; gold
cimeter, sent by the Emperor Of Moroc
co to Thomas Jefferson, as well as many
god hltel swords with solid gold scab-
bards. Two of these were given to
General Shields by the States OF South
Carolina and Illinois. as tokens Of ap.
probation for services in the Mexican
war. Congress purchased them rom
the Generals family for $1,000
philadelphia Ledger.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02

and did not withdraw it. even when he
Doctor Tonight she unused, lit won't
do to leave it like that" Carr pro
tested, "You've done it up tincly,' hut
Maude shook her head; she was ca'cuIa-
ting: FIFTY miles there. five hours
fifty miles back,' she thought, then
suddenly she said 'I.ook here, Carr,
will you promise me something"
"Anything," cried Carr, with radi
ant smile.
"lVel, | don't want Lizzie TO know
about your break; will you stay quietly
here, with Sandy, for the night? I'll
tell Aunte and well send out your on
and pipe, and when Bertram comes home
tomorrow, we'll carry YOU indoors.
vii! you just lie here and lie good, and
let Sandy take care Of yon?'
So, with smile and q hand clasp, she
left him lying on the mattress in the
sweet smelling hay barn, and was
closctcI for five minutes with Auntic.
The result of this confab was that
Auntic told two deliberate tibS, one to
Lizzie, and one to Carr, and Lizzie
laughed happily and said, "Auntie, let
her stay with him; ITS all coming
round right" while Carr smiled be
nignly and remarked: "Its I'LL right,
Auntjc, 60 on in. Tell DR.. Maudc to
have good nip of whiskey before she
goes to bed, AMI let her have good rest.
She'll dream OF broken legs if she
doesn't"
And poor Auntie. with two fibs and a
world of care on her mind, tucked Liz
zie into her bed, and sat up and watched
the front gate until morning.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02

dHN DlOhh!>tfh, Sue Siiu. NtaEIr.
"Oh, Doctor, am so tired; but You'll
go right away, wont you? Ard be sure
and take everything -your horse is good
for it, isn't hc:'
The Doctor laughed III not try"
he said an get Il fresh ole at the half
way house." He looked again at the
tired girl, and into his face came &n en-
preston which means great deal 600
up to my room and lie down. I'll call
the lan,liady to make you some tea.
You are starving. No, MT a word.
You've done your days work, little
woman, and earned a rest. You can
come home to- morrow on the stage, if
you're rested
So he foragcd, and brought trium-
phantiy forth half chicken. a couple
of slices of melon and some light bis
cults, with generous noggiu of milk
to wash it all down. The laudladv
gruntcd an inquiry, was Informed of the
facts, and forbidden to disturb her
self, nor emerge from her bunk in tie
lcan-to.
Maude supncd while the doctor got
his traps together AID saddled his
horse, aud then Maude brought in her
wheel and watched him ride off in the
dark with much igltened heart. She
was weary and sleepy, and she bathed
her face and soused her yellow curls,
ard said her prayers, and curled up on
the Doctors bed and fell asleep.
Two hours later she awoke. The
prairie was flooded with silver moon
light which streamed in through the I'M
glnzed window and made the room as
light as day. She ached in every limb;
a vague dread seized her, she was so
far from home; she ycarncd for the
small, vine hung farmhouse, the rustic
fence and the little grove of trees. She
sat up and pushed the curls from her
forehead, she left the small camp bed,
and walked stiffly and painfully to the
window. The road stretched like a
long black ribbon to the cast, she
seemed to he drawn by it; half asleep,
she fastened on her little hat, drew on
her light coat and YEARLY crept down
the Implanted stairs. she would ride
to the halfway house before the moon
sank; then, she would see! Fifty miles
there and fifty miles back-a hundred
century! Had rot some girl
IN the South told her she had ridden
century? Ever since that day little
envy had been in her heart of that girl,
and she sometimes wished very much
that she, too, might wear upon her cycling
blouse that tiny bar of gold. with its
magic figures. recording q ride of one
hundred miles.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-12-02

Cream coIorcd and chanois- yellow felt
hats in Alpine and Duse shapes arc
trimmed with black velvet and black
mercury wings,
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03
A RATTllNG SPEECH.

Ex-Speaker Douglass Gives Some Plain
Facts.
Hon. George L. Douglass stirred up
the animals" in his speech at Topeka
few evenings since, some of the main
features of which are given by the
Capital He said:
The populist bosses have concocted
and industriously circulated the false
hood that the organization of the legal
house of representatives rested upon
technicalities and fraud. The very re-
verse is true. 1t rested upon honest
votes: while the whole scheme and fab
rio of the populist organization rested
upon the most constituencies technical
tiles and fraudulent pretenSes ever
evolved from the brain of Kansas re-
former.
Let me say at this point that if you
want the truth on these matters don't
go to the DUnsmore house journal to
get it. The vital part of that book is a
fraud. The Dunsrnore house started
ont to publish a correct journal of its
proceedings. and tried il for some
days. But the wise heads OF the outfit
soon discovered that the real facts. IL
known. would utterly destroy the pop
ulist case and make it ridiculous in the
eyes of the world. So the original
journal was called in and. after long
interval. new edition was published
called the revised journal. which re-
sembles the original about as much
as Pickwick Papers resembles the
Holy Scriptures IL is political
fairy tale. cotton up bv that noted
writer of fiction. Judge ". c.
Webb. of Topeka. The preparation
of this romance. as mere piece of
mental gymnastics, may have been ex-
cusa BILE in Judge Webb: but its adop-
ton Us tho journal of the Dunsnore
house and its publication at state ex-
pense, was the most unblushing fraud
ever perpetrated upon the people of
Kansas. They have deliberately pub
lished lie: and every member of the
Dunsmore house possessed OF any self
respect whatever VIII admit that it is
a lie"
Gov. Lewelling," said MIR Douglass.
and the other leaders of this party
refused to take the advice of John Mar
tin and other well-known lawyers who
stood by the law and the decisions of
courts of justice. but followed that of
Doster, Clemens. Webb. Lease and ilk.
Senator Martin told him (Douglass) the
day after he was elected senator that
the case was too plain for argument.
that mem ers holding certificates of
election only We're entitled to organ
ize the house"
Mr. Douglass drew q terrible picture
of the .'Popuiist Bible" the Seven
Conspiracies,'' and made a thrilling
comparison of the noble patriots it
sought TO degrade and the men who
were attacking them. lie culogized in
the most glowing terms The heroes of
the war and named by the dozen the
distinguished republican leaders who
had brought the nation to her proud
position.
The speech closed with an earnest
appeal to every Lciiever in Kansas to
stand by the cause of good government
by voting for the county ticket this
f. II that represented good government
and if this was done he made the
prophecy that next year would see the
state finally and fully redeemed.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03
SAMPLE OF REFORM.
How Kansas "I:cfo-msrs" Feather TheiR
Own Nests.


The Hutchinson News gives detailed
account OF the populist belief and prac-
tice, that public Office is family
snap" The Chase family, four of them,
az the penitentiary. draw altogether
$500, one OF them being taken from
the job OF calf-weaner on the farm and
made engineer at the mine at $1,000 per
rear Wives, sons, daughters, sisters.
nephews, nieces and relatives at large
now draw nearly SIS. 900 from the state
treasury, and the PETER children are Oh
the national pay roll for S2,s0O year.
The News makes another reference of
interest:
beginning at the head of the reform
administration. it is found that Gov.
Lewelling has daughter in his own
Office at salary of FLOOD year-three
times what she could earn in any other
office in the state, and sum sufficient
to make happy the family OF some
voter. The first work done by his new
reform police board at Kansas City was
20 create the useless Office of ulatron at
their lookup. which position was i'm
mediatelv bestowed on sister of the
reform governor, Mrs. Rebecca Hamp-
ton, at $500 q year. This same board
appointed son of the rnatron on the
police force. and before he had his uni
form he was made sergeant at 5000 a
year over old and very efficient officers.
Another relative was imported from
the country ind made policeman in
Topeka and another was made state
house guide
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03

took to have his '..s n way by force and
so violated tie law, squandered thou
ands of dollars. endangered the lives of
hundreds of citizens and scattered to
all the English >realsiuC races of the
earth the news that we were a turbu-
lent, riotous. law-hreak;lg people"
What is the effect of such an adver-
tiSement of the s.ate?"
ne effect is to shut off immigra-
ton. destroy our credit, run down the
prices OF our land and lessen all our
cash values
What should be done to men who
treat our state is this manner?'
Mildly speaking. they should be in
vited to return to Iowa Colorado and
the other states from which they have
lately come to Kansas"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03

Mr. Oswald is a London barrister Of
great ability, but so prolix that he is
the terror of judges. While he was
trying n case recently one of the JUS
tees demonstrated with him regarding
q legal question. and tried TO call the
previous question" on him but Mr..
Oswald would not stop. Splendid ma
terial fo- United States senator
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03

Chairman Hatch, of the committee on
agriculture, is confident that his anti
option bill, which has interested so
many congresses, will be passed By the
present congress He is considering
some important changes in the text of
the bill.
Der fortschritt. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1891-1915, 1893-06-15

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1h'dF AUDI! @elt?"
~M:"n ids fertia brina! Gut
Naut, Bengal"
r@up Na@t, 9aDmo! llno Slid
auf Sonmpeno!"
sic idiittelten ii& bic Sdubs, unS
mlloen 9anges fties 9apmo iiber ben
Mlmenbana enlpor.
,3ensa itanb unb blidte linn nod, bis
ieIne 9eitalt i'm 3pieli9t Der Monoz
nadt 5erfloB. ry2ein, 8ub', itammelz
te lie. tpabreno ibr bic 53d6ren iiber
bic Wangen tolIertenL rberterben ipnft
mir ni9t, 10 lang i9 nod eins 3unq1'
bob' unb 5iib am 2eib!"
sic elite Der !6iitte gu. g1s fie a,,r
Sbllr tam, fab lie 5euer auf benz Serb:
S0rel tauerte i'm Wintel uno qlobte in
bic 5lingelnoen 5lammen. Wit lei1en
Sdritten entfernte iia 3en3a pieoer;
ols tie ben Steg errei9te, Ser in bos
alo1teroorf binunterfiibrte, beaann iie
gu lauten. Der beqe Monb ldein leudz
tete ouf ibren @e9.
Tortiesuns fol9t.