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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
Doing Him a Good Turn.
A Poor Advertisement.

Sinnick-Did You hear about poor Kind
ley2
Quidney-No. What about him?
Sinnick-Why, only IL months ago he in.
vested all his money in a new invention
and built large factory, and last night n
fire broke out and burned it to the ground,
walls and all.
Quidney-Poor beggar By the way
what business was he ins
Sinnick--Patent fireproof building ma
terials.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
He Looks Ahead.

Gummey VI hat makes you look so sol
enn, spatts' What are you worrying
about now?
Spatts-I am afraid that my daughter
will marry an English lord
Gummey- What ridiculous ideal You
have no daughter You are not even mar
ried.
spatts-I know that. but am accus-
toned to look ahead Truth.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
THE CASE OF BROTHER JONES.

He Tried to BE Too Honest, but It Didn't
Work.
II hey TO announce dis eavenin,n said
Brother Gardner at the last meeting of the
Limekiln club, dat Brudder Cumalong
jones am lyin sick at home an dat he has
appealed to dis club fur help to tide him
ober De secretary has bin instructed to
tote him up a S. bill, an when dats gone
we shan't see him suffer. Brudder Jones
am one of de seben or eight millyun pus-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
Kindly wav

Miss Fuzzie-I want to break my engage
ment with Mr.. Sappie. but don't know
how to do it without driving the poor fell
low to suicide.
Little Brother Why don't you let him
see you in curl papers Good News.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
The Kind IT Was.

Does Irvington keep carriage since be
marriedsu
Oh, yes. I see him wheeling it most ev-
cry day. - indianapolis Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
For the Janitor's Use.

Uncle Treetop-You have some mighty
curious things in fats. What is that. noWs
William Anna dumb waiter.
Uncle Treetop-Wh hat is it fors
William Ann-NFe use it principally to
send tips down to the janitor.-N New York
Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
What's In 3 Narnes

Mrs Winebiddle What's stag party,
Freds
Mr. Winebiddle One from which the
dears are excluded. Truth.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
/. Suburban Slang.

low is real estate ont your s7ays''
Oh, said the moist and weary man
s.i it name is mud at present. !, ashing
ton Star.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
..CRADOCK. =

vii make the season 1898 Sunset
'o.Seu
Service fee Sl5 with usual return privilege
/.
fe3o Sunset St Landry
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27

The sun-Sure. What is its
Man In the Moon-Just make it hot for
that half million of Iunatics down there
who are going around screeching that Pm
their sweetheart, durn 'em.-BuffaIo Cou-
rier
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
Cheap Meat |!

On and after May fst, 1899, the under
signed butchers win sell beef iIa the Npe-
lousas market, at the reduced price 81 8e
per pound AIPH ONssE RE ID,
apl2g In g.. II az, III FsA Il.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27

Subscription to 1hs Clarion 81 50 4 year
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27

Subscription only s11f, subscribe now.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
Getting Up His Back.

= II
Man In the Moon-say, want to do me a
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27

LAzARE T. EVY.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

All Democrats in the state want
Democratic harmony to prevail;
they must see the need of unity.
The doors of the party are wide
open. When Chairman Baker, un.
der the advice of the state execu-
tive committee, issues instructions
to the county chairmen throughout
the state to hold Democratic pri.
maries, to select delegates to the
state convention, all persons who
desire to aft late with the party and
who will pledge themselves to sup.
port the nominees of the party,
will doubtless be most cordially in.
vlted to participate. This has been
the uniform custom in the past and
it Is not believed there exists any
substantial reason for changing this
time honored rule.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
TUE OLD mAN SINGS.

r., California Illustrated Magazine.
r,a-o,s a wabble in the Jingle and s'umbl
ia the met.r,
And tho sccen, nigh, be clearer and the Volume
be completer,
And there might be much impro Vemehl I'D Tue
stress and information,
And pol sh III ght he added 70 the cruue pro
nuncistiou:
But there's music such ~ once WAS p ayeu U.s.
fore the ancien, kings
When the old man plays the hidie anu goes
feeling for the strings;
There is laughter checked with tear drops when
the old man sings.
And we form ring around him and We place
him in the middle.
And he hugs up t, the wlthered cheek the poor
old broken fiddle
And sml come, on his features as he hears
ths strings' vibration
And he sings the ongs Of long ago with falter-
ing intonation,
And PHANTOM from the distant psst his distant
music brings,
And troop!Dg fro n their dusty graves come
longforgotten things.
When he tn es the anc lent fiddle. and the old
mas sings
And while the broken man Is playing on the
broken fiddle,
And we press around to hear him as he sits
there in the middle;
The sound OF many wedding bells in all the mu
sic surges,
Then we hear their clsmor smot hered by the
sound OF funeral j rges
'1fs the story Z his lifetime that in the music
rings,
And every life's a blind mans tuno that,
played ON broke strings
And 30 we sit in silence while the old man
sings.
f, NJ sTOsRY
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

A proposed new substitute fol
leather, fsxus tibra," is obtained
from flax, suitably prepared aud
oiled
Sulphuric acid stills of platinum
are now lined with gold, their dura
bility being thus increased several
times.
A rich reward is predicted for the
inventor of cheap process for max
ing wood proof against white ants,
n plague of warm climates.
1t il stated that No more satisfac.
tory silver alloy for coinage and
other purposes has yet been disoov.
cred than that used 500 years ago.
The relative resistance to pressure
of the hardest steel and the hardest
stone were tested the other day in
Vienna Cubes of corundum meas.
uring O 80 inches broke under a
weight of lis cwt., but equal cub es
of steel resisted up to s44 cwt.
An electric process for making
linseed oil into varnish has been
patented by German The puri
fed oil is thoroughly mixed with
sulphuric acid and water, and acte d
upon by the current for two or
three hours, the oxygen produced
IN the nascent sta-e converting the
oil into colorless varnish.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
NAME YOUR BRIDGE SITE.
Waco, Tex as.

The EVENING News desires To
obtain the views of the taxpayers OF
Waco and M5Lennan county as to
the best place for the location OF
the county bridge to be built across
the Brazos river at Waco, and to
this end requests all responsible
citizens of the county and city to
write their choice Of site on a postal
card, with name and postofli, sc ad
dress, and send the same to this
Office for one week--until Wednes.
day, September IL.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
BRIGHT AND BRIEF.

THEY DON'T HAvETO.
He had sorIel trotting torse
which was 30 pesky slow
He named him Chinese, after awhile,
Because he woul mt 20.
Detroit Free Press,
Every man with bright son be-
lieves in heredity. = Atchison
Globe.
There are always some rare bar.
gains at the meat market. calves
ton News.
"All butt" said the marksman
when the gun kicked him over aud
ne nst missed the BULLS eye. -Bos
ton Transcript.
$50 Timpkins has run away with
Graymare's wife--and he was a
friend of Graymare's!" "He must
have been" life.
"What did Daddy say when he
heard that it was triplets?" He
said: This is too, too much -
Indianapolis journal.
Friend: Well, Tommy, now that
you've started to school, what do
you like best? Tommy: Recess.
Inter Ocean.
Tommy, who was Joan of
Arc?" asked the teacher. .slIoah's
wife," said Tommy, who is great at
guessing.-Harper's Bazaar.
81 have changed my opinion
about Galper's being shallow"
"What made your" II took him
IN to drink with me. Chicago
Bleighson: My poor darling.
Now that you are penniless, wha,
Joy is there in life for your Mrs.
bleighson: A lot of it. l can shop,
can't l?-Detroit Tribune.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
The Only Democratic Daily In Cen.
Tal Texas.
PUBLISHERS NOTICE.
SEMI.W EEKL NEWS

The News now issues Il Sami
Weekly Edition, mailed to our sub.
scribers Tuesday and Friday morn
ings of each week. the Weekly for
the past five years has been an eight
page paper containing the cream
of the ne 4s published in the Daily.
Some time ago 1t .as enlarged TO
twelve pages, and under the new
arrangement our subscribers wall
get sixteen pages OF matter each
week. The management appreci-
ates the very liberal support which
has been accorded it and makes this
decided improvement in its weekly
edition for the benefit of its friends
without any additional charge. The
SEMI. WEEKLY NEWS will be sent to
any address upon the receipt of one
dollar. Address
j. r. BENNETT,
Waco Tay,s
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
s-sssss.qs4
THE BETTER HA,s

Queen Victoria has forty d..
Belgium's Queen is q claw ''s'
ist' clever A,q.
. ieen Christina can NIB.
lent jelly, jam aud pre- en- We ss,4L
Mrs. S g. Holden ha, ;,..
ed dental inspection into tho ,a''oass
schools of Detroit. 'ns publ.
Mrs. John Sherwood, vel, !.
through her literary ' . kaaa
indeed, IN she says that no ous t; S
York works harder than shs ~ IN NJ
Miss Jane Adams. Of D..
House, has made a stud, VI =. a y
more recent Immigrants ~ ~ " n
country, and has given u
about them at Chautauon, sS y
has marked the domestic "a
and artistic aptitudes of the I,,:
and the righteousness and f ,,a,a|
of the Poles, and the tact ''uy'
Jews. She gave it as bar s y,
eucs that all of them, when 'I ts's
from their native countries ''s
traits and qualities full of i p,ss'
ton to native Americans. and 1' ~
deserving of imitation.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
What A Prominent Insurance Man So,

What A Prominent Insurance Nan Says.
H. M. Blossom, senior member OF
H. M Blossom & Co, 2l1 N. Sd st.,
St. Louis, writes: had been left with
a very distressing cough, the result Of
influenza, which nothing seemed to 70
lieve, until | took Billiards. Horehound
Syrup. One bottle completely cured
rue. sent one bottle to my sister,
who had severe cough, and she ex
perlen 'ed immediate relief. | always
recommend this syrup to my friends
John Cranston, 90S Hampshire
street, Quincy, Ills , writes: | have
found Billiards. Horehound Syrun
superior to any other cough medicine
l have ever known. 1t never disan.
points. Price 500. Sold by FISHER
4 Co., Waco, j. B. Cornish East
Waco, Texas.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

Senator Coke, in his speech in the
senate Monday, declared "thst the
money problem can only be settled
by the establishment of bimets'lic
currency as it existed prior to 1873
The people will never be content
until the wrong of 1878, by which
half OF the money of the country
was stamped out, in order to double
the purchasing power of the other
half, has been nndone and reversed.
If a single gold standard be estab-
lished in America then Rothschild
and the bank OF England, with their
New York associates, will become
the arbiters of American finance and
the dictators of our financial poll
cies, because they control the gold
which the United States would have
to have. The abandonment of sill
yer by the United States will be its
death knell as money, except in sub
ordinate ways and for subs diary
coinage. The United States senate
is the only barrier between the peo-
pie and spoiliation."
In the light of the present, it
seems, that barrier will soon be
broken down. And until the next
election the people will be left help.
less, at the mercy of the goldbugs.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The gold bugs have been parad.
ing figures to show what [ ncle Sam
has been losing buying silver bull
lion from mine owners, 1t now
turns out one of the proposed plans
of the president to relieve the ten
sion in money matters is to coin the
so 600, 900 silver dollars which the
bullion purchased will make abov
the price paid for the bullion in
treasury warrants.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The WAYS and means committee
are considering a nav tariff bill,
That is, they are hearing testimony
from tirms who want their wares
protected. If they listen to all who
come they will make but little pro.
progress before the flowers come
again.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
MR.. REACAK'S ViLLiFiERS.

ne constant abuse tnaL is D5iug
heaped upon the venerable John ii.
Reagan by certain class Of Texas
newspapers is disgrace to southern
manhood. A man whose honorable
career Of fifty years of public servi
tude is spotless and untarnisheh.
John II. Reagan today towers as
far above his villifiers as Mount
Olympus does above the veriest
mole hill. In all his long public
career, whether serving in the Con
federate cabinet or in the congress
Of the United States, his every act
has been inspired by lofty patriot.
ism and honorable ambition,
and no man can charge him
with d.shonor. Yet at a period of
life when his gray hairs alone
should command respect, he is az.
sailed by mountebanks of later
generation and reviled by those
who are not worthy even to brush
the dust from his shoes. 1t were
nothing to criticize his public acts
or his official course. But these
revilers stop not at this. They tear
the veil from HIS private life, and
nothing escapes from the wanton-
ness of their attacks. His il trmi-
ties those iufirmities which come
with old age-a,e held up to ridi-
cule and disdain. 1t is un-
worthy, we say, unworthy the
young manhood of the South.
Hon. John Ii. Reagan is nov
an old man. He stands alone as
the solitary oak Of the forest when
all the rest have been swept to
earth by storm. He is, we believe,
the LAT of those grand souls who
presided over the des-inies of the
Southern ConfederAcy until her
Star of Hope went down forever
and set to rise no more. Bat few
short years at most and the journey
OF his life will be ended. Why
then should we not honor him in
these declining years? Are We, as
southerneTs, degenerating into in
CRATES? Have the fires of patriotism
that once burned inherent in our
hearts been smouldered by the
ashes of ingratitude? Are we to
be turned from the path
of our duty by the per
nicious criticisms Of those who
blaspheme God and insult old age?
If so, let us cease to call ourselves
men and grovel in the dust as COW.
ardly slaves. II not, let US look
with reverence and love on honored
old age as dill the Spartans in the
days of old, when every Spartan
nursed king. John
II. Reagan deserves our reverence
and respect at least, and if we are
stall Southerners this much we
should grant him. Corpus Christi
Caller.
The Caller probably refers to such |
small calibre folk as the editor Of
the San Antonio Express-the great
Texas Smart Alec-an hysterical,
half.educated freak, mere social
Ist, whose real ignorance and rank
Foolishness are palpable to all edu.
Gated men of sound mind who have,
now and then, read the produce of
his small intellect. The adulation
Of the vulg and the illitera,e has
turned the head of this cynical
gentleman.
The Bilgetown Squirtgun, known
As the Houston Herald, which
is professedly "edited" by south.
srn men, echoes all the spite.
fal and silly things calculated by
The wise man of the Alamo.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The new bridge should be built
at the point which will most con.
veniently accommodate the largest
number of persons in the county
and city. A few dollars more or
less az to its cost should not in.
huence it's location.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The people VINO 60 to the Chi.
cage show are spending in that city
to see the sights and pay the fakirs
who throng the midway" some.
thing near quarter Of a million
daily. Without doubt it is a fear.
full waste of money, when it is re,
membered, that same city contains
thousands of human beings without
bread and without the opportunity
to work for it
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The banks seem to be entirely
willing to enter into the new scheme
for banking proposed by Mr.. Cleve.
land, but it can't work in Texas for
the reason this state is "constitu.
tionally" against state banks.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

THE News will, in day or two.
give to its readers in the form of q
supplement, the great speech in be.
half of silver, delivered by Senator
Coke in the United States senate on
the 4th,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

Much cotton is being gathered
but very little is being sold. Far.
mers are hol ling for better prices.
The crop is light; it is probable the
farmers may get better prices.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

A collar is worth more now than
it will be sixty days from now. If
you are boarding now is the time to
turn it loose.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The American people will not
patiently submit to contraction of
the currency. They will be awak.
ened by hard experience to a realiz.
ing sense of the manner in which
they have been dispossessed Of
their profits and their prosperity by
small but powerful, aggressi' e
and rapacious combination, with
headquarters in Lomtard and Wall
streets Albany Journal, Rap.
The people viii speak in the next
election on the silver question in no
uncertain tone and the man in the
south and west who vo,ed against
silver will be left at home. This is
not threat,it is simply pred ction
and time will demonstrate its &C
curacy.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The New York banks say they
now have plenty Of cash to pay for
cotton.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
Base Ball,

Padgitss Park, Saturday, sunda
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

The largest, newest ana closnes,
stock OF carriages, buggies and phae-
tons and carts in the city at
IT, SPARKS & Sous
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

Now is the best time to make in.
vestments in Waco dirt. 1t will
never again be as cheap as now.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08

Base Bali, Ell Paso VS.. Waco.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1893-12-29

ing memorized matter The cerebral
centers connected with the sense or
gans are continually and independent
ly employed in stimulating impressions
from without Certain of the senses,
especially that Of hearing. remain open
to external influences during sleep and
convey actual vibrations to the brain.
There is IN active and purely invOlun-
tary prcdisposition on the part Of the
mental apparatus to compare and col
late all the messages which come. or
seem to come. from without, through
the sense channels; and to collate these
again with what is brought 70 the con-
sciousness by involuntary recollection.
Associated with this is i tendency to
combine the evidence so collected into
a coherent whole, and to make the re-
suit OF either explain the more emphatic
thoughts or impressions II else answer
some questions which occupied the at
tention before sleep began. NO vol
lntary power exists during sleeu to
pick ont from the tumble handed in
that which is relevant to the problem
10 be solved: and just rs there is no
power TO discriminate real from false
impressions at the outset. SO. through
out Il dream, we are completely oblv-
ious to the most glaring fallacies and
Inconsistencies Rochester POSt-E
press
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1893-12-29

couldn't get through again for some
time. l also wanted to get the Christ
mas presents for the kids; so / told the
little wife not to be anxious if didn't
show up for several days
well. we all started, only leaving
one OF the boys behind, who ha, been
sick and wasn't quite we'll yet We
had the dcucA's own job fixing up the
cattle and getting through the Dolores.
1t took Us over Il week. and SeTeral OF
the boys We're badly frost-bitten. We
were ready in II few lays to push back
again, but another heavy snowfall
came, and another. and another. until
really it seemed to be showing all the
time. The days slipped by, one by one.
unlll christmas came, and tiCre | was
snow bound III Dolores. getting more
and more anxious about the folks at
home. | knew their grub must be
getting low; and, besides, here was
Christmas day. and nothing for the kids.
l was nearly wild. | can tell you. Well.
two days before New Years there was
Il let-up. and | made up my mind to
push through at any cost could
only induce one of my men to come
with me: the others hatly refused. They
So'A 1t "ouiu Dc sure ucdIH. tIlL am
other storm was coming up-this time
a regular blizzard At any rate, we
started on our tifty-mile ride. The
trails were simply one succession Of
immense drifts, 50 we made mighty
SLOW progress. as we had to lead a pack
horse. After one days riding we had
only gone twenty-five miles and a new
storm was coming up; and it proved 4
1II 1I.ll Iyf "A.
the snow and lay down for a few hours
sleep, for we We're dead beat; but it
was SO cold that we were only able
to get about forty winks. and started
again, so as not to freeze to death
The storm increased getting worse
and worse as We went on; the snow,
driven by the fierce wind, cut our faces
like SO many needles. while the bitter
cold seemed to numb every faculty and
to be slowly freezing out our very lives
My horse then gave Out--couldn't move
another step. so let him 60 and mount
ed the pack horse. Night then came
on and our whisky, that had given
lis some strength and warmth, gave
out. We didn't know where we We're,
but thought we couldn't be many miles
from home if only we We're on the right
trail My mans horse gave out. and.
as was stronger than he. | made him
get on my horse. and. holding on to the
saddle, walked along by his side; but
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1893-12-29
MurIler 1T IL Dance.

i.tizahethtoNn H.. Dec u st i
dance II Rock Greek near here, Ia Il
Night. Dave Evans and John Howell ap-
poareA for the purpose, is they said, Of
raising Il disturbance and doing up
George Barnard They found Barnard
ana drew their reyolv,rs, but Barnard
was too quick for Evans, the spokesman,
and sent ball crashing through his
mouth. Barnarl,s revolver only con
tanned two cartridges. and after firing the
second shot he was at the mercy Of
his as>aiants, who emItied their re-
yolyers 1T him. Howell following him up
and shooting him until he was dead.
Frank Iedhetter, a byStander, WAS shot
Ill the thigh Four bullets took effect in
Rarnard'S body. Howell gave himself up
and Evans walked to Il house near by
ahere h. lies In Il critical condition. An
oil grlllge is ~ the bottom Of the af-
fair oecasioned by trouble over woman
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1893-12-29

every night When I gave up to die
| was nearer home than | thought, and
she heard my call She got some whis
Ky, and, making the man hold Il torch
SO that she could find her way back.
she plowed through all that snow and
storm until she found me, and then by
main force she dragged me back to
the house. Not only that, but she Went
back again and brought In the other
poor fellow. What do you think Of that
for pluck Ii was weeks before ! got
over the effects Of that night; but | tell
you what, boys, that was the happicst
New Year | ever had. It's nearly l.
O'Clock; so fill up, all. and make ready
to drink the New Year in when the
clock strikes. and one toast that l know
you'll all join with me in drinking will
be: The Heroine Of New Years Eve
My Little Wife. " ID. Charlier. in
Once Il Week