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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Tho White Sewing Machine will give
you longer and better service than any
made. See ad. in this issue.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

The merchants of Orelousas should
invite trade from abroad and retain
every dollars worth of the home pat
ronage. There is but one way 70 ac-
medium.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Laugh, laugh and be merrs-at the
Opera House Monday night.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08
NOTICE OF TiEsE.tA6.
ESTATE OF Gus. WILKINS.
PROBATE DOCKET. DISTRICT rnI-pr
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY

" lrreas, EVcIlna Collins Andrus OF the uar-
LSh oi 81 Landry. teStalncntary cNccutriy of
tllc estate o1 Gus Wilkins, deceased has filed
tabcAu of classification Of debts of said rs-
tate; accompanied hy her petition praying for
the hOmologaiion ct the same:
anu, Whereas inc prayer OF said petition has
been granted by an order Of court bearing date
March %, 1898. '"'o
Now, therefore, notice l., Hereby gIyt.n to all
persons interested to make opposition to said
tapieau, 10 ME same Ill writing, in my Office in
the town OF OpelOtlsa>, within the time rcuuir-
cu by law, why the said tahleau should moi he
hnmulO@atcd and confirmed
CHARLES NJ. THOMPSON
March %, lA4}. IT f:I.rl.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

No. 5221.
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT COI-Rq
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY
Z, whereas, Honoro Fusclicr, of the parish Of
st. Landry, has applied by his petition TO he
appointed administrator OF the estate of Joscnll
DoSllet and wife, Crasie Sonner deceased. lire
OF the PARISH Of st. Landry;
therefore, any person intending 10 make on.
position to aaId appointment will tile the san c
III writing, IN my office, in the town of OpcIou,
site, within ten day from the present notice.
CHARLES N. THOMPSON,
April /, le?3. 2t fIrrL
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08
wednesday. April jtl,, 1893.

the following dcSCrihed property, belonoinr ;,
the estate OF Napoleon Robin. dcrpasrd 7.,. ~
u inc PARISH OF ST. Landry, to-wit:
]. A certain strip OF land a few feet v;Jo .,,t
lying along south aud contiguous TO a. thc Ints
III 3h'laet 81; Landry parish, La, on me sou1l,
s!'l' OF Napoleon Avenue, as per pat If thn ~
poeon lots filed in the records of said estaIa
2 y tract of Land Oh the east side of Roror
ltcht. -. Laldry parish, containing about ono
huiutto ana twenty superficial arnrnts nur.
vi IG5S, bounded south by Bayou Teche east Lv
idh'l lale or the estate, west by land of E1niI!s
koplli' aGu nerth by lands of j. b. and An,,ni.
tiIonGt. with the buildings and imnrovenIrniS
thereon. ''A'9
IGiilS and ContltIous.- One fourth cash AMI
we pdiahcc or the purchase price payabie in
tliet ciIdl ailtl annual inStallments from the
d"N ol sale, each lnstallment to bear eight ner
CEN annual interest from date. and the Interest
|" ne pal1 annually. Purchasers to nav the m .
toihcy zee nAed at ten per centlIm on tho
HiIhclpdI ana interest, IN case OF suit to enforce,
tlc pay ltleHt or any lustalment or part therrot
tulchastrs to furnish their pr0missorv notes
NltH 5oou personal security in solid to th,
satisfaction OF The administrator in amounts
corresponding with the lnstamcnts: said norr.
u tt payable to the order of the administrators
at MS onliilcll On bay ou Iechc. a special NOR,
SaEe ana vendor privilege to be retained on
Iic tdld SOFA 10 secure the credit portion of the
Piite LncFcul, interest alld attorneys fees pm.
cltascf5 not tO dispose uf Or atnate the lands tn
thc prejudice OF this mortgage and privilege.
EMILE ROBIN,
-''"''H T. 10'o' Administrator.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Don't buy gig, buggy OIL ph;eton uu-
til you have examined and priced those
that j. B. Sandoz has for sale.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Fresh parclled aud ground coffee al
ways on hand at Vilaseca's.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

We need that street sprinkler already
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

The DEMOCRAT 3 months for 80 cents.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Kings Comedy Co. supporting Miss
Grace Hezlep in My Mothcr-in-Law at
the Opera House Monday night.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08
IA sss&s AZ. ADsERTzsE,zE
EBsEss.sG S.As.E.
ESTATE OF NAPOLEON por1H
ii|'bAlh DOCKET, DISTRICT C0ljn1
PARISH OF ST LANDRY,

- >lFln" OF an order OF the Honorable EIrr
Gnln ''uh'ciaI District Court of the state rr
ttre Will be sold at public auction to the Iast
a'N highest bidder, by the undersigned nd
IL, IL, .H>'rator or any duly qualified auctioueer
IcclN. IN said uar!sh u 81 Laudrx nn ~ w
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08
A Public Library and Reading Room.

The "Rapides Club was organized at
Alexandria on the 10th of March last,
and its charter is published in the Town
Talk. It's objects and purposes are de-
clared to be: Firstly, to promote and
encourage the cultivation of literature
aud science by the establishment and
gradual increase of a library, and by
the maintenance OF a reading room,
supplied with the leading periodicals,
magazines, reviews and newspapers of
the day, and secondly: The regulation
of social Intercourse and amusement
among the members Of said corpora
ton.
The officers are John c. Ryan, pres
ident, Chas. NJ. Flower, vice. president,
Chas. NJ. Fitzpatrick, treasurer, Groves
Jarreau, secretary; and Messrs. }. w.
Alexander, l.. A. Stafford, L. Z. Smith,
NJ. r. Fisher, J. H. Meeker, E. Schma-
inski and VIM. Polk, Jr, governing
committee.
Some of our citizens have been think
ing for some time of establishing sim
liar club here, and reference to the mat
ter has several times been made in these
columns. In order to expedite the for
nation of such an organization, we now
make this offer: Provided it is organ
lied within the next thirty days we will
give the charter the necessary insertions
in the DEMOCRAT free of charge. Now,
let all go to work ;it once. Some of the
benefits of such institutions. we may
add for the benefit of the uninformed,
are thus briefly given by the New Or
leans Times Democrat: The importance,
the good educational aud moral effects
Of free libraries, arc every day better
recognized. 1t is not alone that they
educate and improve the people, but
they are centres of enjoyment and
amusement in the smaller towns. Life
is sometimes dreary in these, and many
of their people look around vainly on
holidays for something to do. A free
library will afford many persons amuso-
nent, as well us instruction, and keep
them from that mischicf' which we
are told idle hands ale inclined to.
Every town in the South ought to have
a free library and if it tries, will find
it far more easily secured than one
would imagine, as there are always
citizens who are willing
and anxious to assist in an Improvement
like this.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08
GOOD SERVICE. PROMPT RETURNS
COLUMBIA RICE MILL,
NEW YORK,

The unGclsi gucu beg to call the atten-
uOn of planters aud factors to the above
Mill, which is among the largest in the
United States. 1t is thoroughly equip
ped with the latest and best machinery
for the milling OF Rice, and secures out
turns cquaed by few and cxcellcd by
none,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

'sf6ssc lot neglect 10 ADVERTISE"
--P. 7. BaInum,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Don't fail to see Little Lotta and Wiz
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

Don't fail to see My Mother-in-Law.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

out Monday night,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-08

PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT CDrR1
Hr, LANDRY. No. -
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NOTICE OF ADuENssrRaTroN.

ESTATE OF JOSEPH DOGUEr AND W1rr
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SOLONS.
Queer Things Seen from the Press
Gallery Of the Senate.
Statesmen Who Are Entitled to Seats in
the Front Rows of Variety Theaters
"A Rear View of Senators Blod-
gett and Hill.
Especial Washington Letter.l

Looking from the press gallery of the
senate upon the members of that au-
gust body to-day during the discussion
the remarkable similarity in the ap-
pearance of Senator Hill, of New York,
and Senator Blodgett, of New Jersey.
The front seat in the senate gallery is
about twenty feet higher than the
desks Of the senators, and the two dis
tinguished gentlemen mentioned, who
occupy chairs in the back row or the
democratic side, were about fifty feet
from me. Both Of them were engaged
in writing letters, and as they bent
over their desks their smooth, bald
heads were strikingly similar in size,
shape, and, | had almost said, alike in
expression.
Two other bald heads, directly op-
posite, on the back row on the repub-
lican side of the chamber, were in
striking contrast. Senator Carey, of
Wyoming, and Senator shoup. Of Idaho,
might readily be mistaken for each
other if only the tops of their heads
were photographed. Hill and Blodgett
have long, narrow heads, while Carey
and Shoup carry their brains in larger,
rounder skulls which look much like
elliptical billiard balls. In the house
Of representatives the gentlemen who
have been honored with seats in that
popular body are, in the main, very
much younger than the potent, grave
and reverend seigniors who deliberate
in the senate. This is probably because
the representatives are selected for two
years, and frequent changes are there
by made; while senators are elected for
six years and each of them generally
has two terms, SO that they are more
apt t. grow old in the service.
Senator Harris, Of Tennessee, has
been in public life so long that, but for
his bristling mustache, he would be en-
tirely devoid of capillary ornamental
ton, and .he has probably by this time
forgotten how he used t. look before
nature deprived him of hair. Senator
Allison, of Iowa, who has been q MEM
Der of the senate for eighteen years,
still retains a luxuriant suit of hair,
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H UGANDA QUESTION.
It May Lead to the Downfall Of
the GladstOnians.
Labouchere and His Colleagues Demand
tho Evacuation of the Province-His-
tory of the East Africa Company
Sectarian Wars in Africa.
Especial Letter.1

The Uganda question which is at
present agitating the people and poll
ticians of Great Britain is of particular
Importance, as it may cut short the pre-
~carious existence of the Gladstone min
istry. The problem to be solved by the
ministry and parliament is whether
the country shall be evacuated or re-
tanned.
Before entering into a discussion of the
political troubles, it may be well to
give a short history of Uganda. Some
years ago the British East Africa com
pany, a private corporation, secured
from the sultan of Zanzibar, in various
cessions, about a million square miles
of territory for a term of fifty years,
and for an annual payment of $50, 900.
The company's capital was e. DOC, 900,
of which 81, 900, 900 was offered to the
public. The customs revenue in 1883 was
e36, 600; in 1889 it had increased to $780,
900. The company undertook extern
sive Improvements in Mombasa, the
chief town of the British district; and
in this, the construction of telegraph
lines, the maintenance of an armed
force, and similar expenditures, the
capital has vanished and the receipts
have not come satisfactorily to hand.
The evacuation of the country was sug-
gested by Mr.. Gladstone, when the
East Africa company applied for gov
eminent assistance a short time ago.
His views at once aroused the opposi-
ton of the religious societies of Lon
don, whose officials claim hat evacua-
ton would leave the missionaries, as
well as their native converts, at the
mercy of the savages and the still more
dreaded Arab slave hunters controlled
by Hamed Ben Muhammed, known to
the world as Tippo lib.
A statement made by Bishop Smyth-
les, Of the Universities Mission to Afri-
ca, sheds a most peculiar light upon the
whole transaction. The dignitary de-
clares that his missionaries were happi-
ly settled in Uganda before the advent
of the East Africa company and the ex-
tension of the British protectorate over
the country, but that the intrusion of
these had changed the condition Of
things. Strifes have been raised and
difficulties created that did not exist
before, SO that where once the mission
airy was comparatively safe nothing
a now insure safety but a British
army. Summed up in a few words, the
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HUI OROUS.

81 hear you've been cultivating the
society of that pretty widow, Van;
what are you up toe" I'm trying to
kill the weeds."-Kate Fields Wash
ington.
-Smith-"IIow did you like it in
Africa? Were the natives friendly?"
Returned Traveler-"Very, indeed.
They tried very hard to make me stay
to dinner with them?'
-Knibbs-"How nice Miss Plump
leigh looks. She looks good enough to
eat" Gibbs-'She is good enough
in fact, she's eating most. of the time
Boston Transcript.
A Sidercal Prophecy Boy icon.
templating the heavens)-'Was Mars
once such a great fighter. Map" MAJ
Eyes, my SON" Boy suppose John
Sullivan will look as small as that some
day!"-Puck.
-Tom-"You ought to have been to
the theater with us last night. AwfulIy
funny. We roarcd with laughter the
whole time" Harry-"between the
acts, too?" Tom-'No; then we smiled"
Harvard Lampoon.
The Outcome.-Mrs. E'ngley tank
iously)-''How did you come out last
night playing poker?" Kin5ley-'I o
two boxes of cigars and lost that new
gown was going to give you"
-Livewayte's Mistake.--.And this
portrait" said Mr.. Livewayte, of Chi
cago, i~nquiringly, pointing to one in
Mr.. Bleeker's gallery. ''That is a Ma
donna" "Oh, ali! A connection OF the
family, presume."-Detroi Free Press.
A man killed a hog in Clinch coun-
ty and found a fve-dollar gold piece on
the inside. All the farmers in that sec
ton have since gone to stock raising.
We have always said that there was
money in hogs. Atlanta Constitution.
-'Charley" said the affectionate lit
tie wife, didn't you tell me those blue
chips cost a dollar apiece?" Yes"
"Wel1, here's a whole box full of all
colors that | bought TT the bargain
counter for seventy-cents. brooklyn
Life.
There are go, 900 words in the En-
glish language, and many of them
were used last Sunday by a woman who
discovered after coming out of church
that her new hat was adorned with =
tag which read. Reduced to 6s. 3d.
Tid-bits.
why are you SO naughty, Johnnie?
1t seems to me that with worn
ont. and papa with a broken arm, You
might try to be good" "Hohr' said
Johnnie. That's just the time to be
bad. No n can lick me for THAR
per's Bazaar.
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and his face is almost entirely covered
with a dark-brown beard which has
been rapidly silvering during the re-
cen months. Senator Hoar, of Massa-
chusetts, has q complexion as florid and
pink as that of a baby in long dresses,
and the red corpuscles in his blood are
so plentiful that his bald Uranium is as
well colored as his face. His colleague,
Senator DAVIS. still wears a little shock
of hair upon the apex of his Uranium,
and supplements the loss of top-knot
with a short cropped, bristling beard
which is rapidly becoming snow-white.
Ex-senator Ingalls, was distinguished
during his last six years in the senate
by a most magnificent crop of silvcry
hair which seemed almost iridescent
from the gallery distance. His success
sor, the celebrated PETER, not only has
a full suit Of black hair, but a very
handsome long, brown beard, which
has been the subject of jests from the
pencils of political scribblers. He is a
very worthy and able man. Senator
Wilson, of Iowa, who thirty years ago
was the most vigorous debater in the
house of representatives and a very
athletic, handsome man, is to-day one
of the quietest members of the senate,
and to look upon his snow-white hair
and beard he would not be recognized
Us the aggressive man of former days.
Senator Henderson, of Nebraska. who
had a brilliant career as a soldier and
who has been in public life for well
nigh forty years, still wears a full suit
of dark brown hair, and with his fresh
complexion, large mustache and small
goatee looks not more than thirty
years of age. Senator Butler, of South
Carolina, a perfect Chesterfield upon
the floor of the senate and probably the
handsomest man on the demo-
cratic side of the chamber, has
a rapidly thinning crown of sill
yer and a bristling, snow-white
mustache. With one weR-made artificial
.1mp, he stands or walks with perfect
ease, and only those who know him
well would suspect mis- physical inirm-
ity. Senator White, of Louisiana, has
more face than any mar in the senate.
He is always clean shaven, seldom oc-
cupied in writing. usually leaning back
in his chair gazing upon the ceiling, so
that with his high forehead, big cheeks,
large chin and thick neck he looks,
from the gallery, like IN amplitude Of
face. Senator Mitchell, Of Oregon, is
trying to look like himself again. For
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Four thousand nine hundred and
fifteen new books and 1850 new edi-
tions, a total OF. 6,254, were published
in England last year. This Is an in
crease of more than 500 over the pro-
duction in 1891.
-Alphonse Daudet, ''the French
Dickens" tried school teaching for a
year, and then, sick of such a life, made
his way to Paris, where he arrived with
forty sous and q bundle of poems. He
was fortunate in soon finding a pub
Usher.
The trustees of the Tilden trust
have received from Miss Julia S. Bry-
ant, the daughter of the poet, about a
thousand volumes selected from her
fathers library at Roslyn, Long Island.
She intimates that she may make fur
ther gifts at a later day.
Cyril Tyler, the wonderful twelve
year-old ~boy-soprano, who c~aptivased
the musical critics of New York, is hav-
ing great success in other large cities.
A distinguished Boston critic asserts
that the soulful quality of his voice ex-
ceeds hat of most other living singers,
and that he a phrase Home, Sweet
Home" with as much art as Patti her
self.
-Rudyard Kipling is now the proud
father of a Yankee-born daughter. wto
arrived at his wife's home, near Brat
tleboro, Vt, on one of the last days of
the old year. He and his wife are
spending the winter in the story-and-a-
half cottage built for the farmer near
the old homestead. Mr.. Kipling is
building a $40, 600 house near by, which
will be known as Grows Nest
While the queen regent of Spain
was out driving recently her carriage
ran down an old woman who was try
ing to throw a petition to her. AS soon
as the carriage could be stopped her
majesty got out and helped into it the
injured woman, whom she had driven
to a hospital and supplied with every
attention. Next day she visited the
hospital and left a comfortable sun for
the poor patient.
Benjamin Butler had his senti-
ment. Never was he seen without a
rose in his button-hole. His wife, who
died in 1876, bred in him a taste for the
flower, and he supplied "a conservatory
for the cultivation of this flower. She
always sent him fresh flowers daily
when he was absent from home, and
after her death roses came to him each
day from that conservatory, no matter
where he might be.
Father Kneipp, the physician priest
of Worishofen, was invited to dinner a
short time ago by the prince regent of
Bavaria to meet some of Munich's
greatest medical men. He does not APP
pear. however, to have made a good
impression, for his crude manners
grated on the refined taste of his royal
patron and his medical opinions failed
to convince. When questioned about
his methods of diagnosis he said hat he
simply looked at his patients and al
ways knew after a minute or two what
was the matter with them.
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country and captured as many of tho
struggling Ugandans rs they could.
Moharnmedan missionaries, who spread
their gospel in much the same way as
did the British soldiers, added to the
terrors of the hour. Civilization" in a
few years destroyed the peace of a pop
ulous nation and made the natives 40
ject slaves.
1t is surprising that in view of the fact
that order is being restored in a meas
ure by the British troops, the govern
ment in London should think OF evacu-
ating the territory o at such a ire
mendous cost. Capt Lugard imme-
diately repaired to England when he
heard of the proposition He has been
industrious in circulating encouraging
reports of the country. He declares that
the triangular duel between Moham-
medans and so-called Protestants and
Catholics is forever ended and that the
three parties have been comfortably es-
tablished in three separate districts of
the kingdom.
Capt. Lugard comes of a fighting FAM
lily. His grandfather served in the British
army, and all of his uncles are in the
queens service. One of them is Sir Ed
ward Lugard, colonel Of the East Surry
regiment, and the captains father still
draws a pension as a military chaplain.
He served through the Afghan cam
paign with the Indian contingent, and
was on the staff in Burmah. While on
half pay in 1888 he commanded an ex-
petition to Nyassaland, and did very
good work against the Arab slave
traders. In 1889 he explored the SabaIzi
route for the East Africa company, ard
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bishops comments mean hat only be-
cause Of the intervention of the East
Africa company does Christianity now
need the help Of the sword to spread
the gospel.
In the parliamentary struggle about
the Uganda problem the tories will no
doubt take the side of the church
against the state, if for no other reason
Than the purpose of undermining Mr..
Gladstone remarkable influence among
the religious elements of England.
The radicals, headed by Mr.. Labouchere,
have always opposed the East Africa
monopoly and will insist upon evacu-
alton, even though their action should
embarrass the liberal ministry.
The bitter and sanguinary conflict
between the Catholic and Protestant
converts in Uganda has, according to
admissions made by both sides, done a
great deal to injure the Christian cause
IN the most populous and prosperous
province of the African continent.
The English contingent, under COM
mand of Capt. f. j. d. Lugard, adopted
the old Spanish method of converting
the natives by force. There is. in fact,
considerable resemblance between Cor
tez and Lugard, although the latter
does not possess the marvellous diplo-
matte and strategic of the
former. To promote the interests of the
East Africa company, Capt. Lugard al
lied himself to the 4, ZOO Protestant ma
tives, who fought their 2 5000 Catholic
fellow countryrnen with a zeal born of
ignorance and superstition. The Prot
estants did valiant battle under the
British flag. The Catholics used the
red cross on a white foundation for
their emblem.
The internecine wal was concluded
by the British soldiery. The Catholics
were banished to an island in the Vic
toria Nyanza, called Sesse, and finally
departed to a province known as Bud
du. Mwanga, the king of the natives,
after having been q Protestant, a
heather. a Catholic and. some say, a
Mohanmedan, has once more joined
the Church of England, and has, after
many trials, been restored to the shaky
throne of the land of his fathers.
While these disturbances were going
on the Arabs of Tippo lib invaded the